This is not the 1960's when the CIA could still lose control to LSD to a bunch of hippie publicists or television inadvertently contribute to anti-war sentiment by neglecting to censor the body bag count. We've had decades of Republican intelligence late capitalist control conspiracy power mongering since then. Communism is dead and now you're the enemy. Most of the world has sunk deep in media trance - they can't wake up and smell the coffee because the coffee has no smell. It's become pure image.
Television is the real world.
Real thing now. And if you don't believe it you're outside reality. This is far worse than being a criminal. At least the criminal has some relationship with the consensus. Communism is dead and now you're the enemy.