Russia's Pravda published  a daily litany of lies and falsehoods the average Russian knew was just propaganda.  Glorious praise for the great workers paradise compared to the hell hole of American. capitalism.  The failure of the propaganda ushered in the collapse of the USSR  The failure of the credibility of American news  is no different. The elite system is collapsing because people know when they are being lied to and run to anything that has even a whiff of truth.