How long has the media been evil?

Since the jews took over Disney

It's not that the media is evil exactly - it is that we have no way to change the media from this pay-for-play model. In other words, until the Internet, everything we saw on TV or in print was paid for by someone who for some reason wanted to "program" people with their ideas of reality.

Then when we started to get a free press, public media, immediately the monied interests have tried to find a way to shut it down. They can shout louder. They can censor. They can create noise and distraction. They can attack individual voices and ideas with all the tools that their power and wealth can muster against us.

Meanwhile, we have only our culture, reason, and education to rely on, and that is under attack as well. Look at our schools and universities - we have violent idiots protesting who over and over when interviewed and given a chance to speak tell us with blank stares they have no idea what an Intifada is, or what from the River to The Sea means, or what the hell has been going on in the world since the dawn of man. In other words, mostly idiots who have been programmed to think they have something important to say.

Are you talking about the news? Or Hollywood? Or both?

If you're talking about the news, frankly, they've been evil and had their own agenda since newspapers were first invented. It was a news campaign that helped take down a Queen in France, and it was a lying news campaign that started a war in the the Caribbean, just so more newspapers could be sold, never mind that lives were lost. It's the news that pushes narratives on people, even if they're not true, and it's the news that bows to whomever gives them the most money to report on whatever their favorite overlords want.

The film industry was rotten from the start, it's just that nobody was aware for at least a decade or two before scandals started being printed in the news. I mean, you basically took all the crap that was going on behind the scenes in the theater setting on the East Coast and in Europe, transferred it over to southern California, and got moving cameras involved. All that stuff about the Casting Couch, the competition, the backdoor deals, the power trips, the destruction of dreams, the drug dealing; all that was already going on in the theater setting, it's just, people didn't care back before Hollywood came about because actors were not given the time of day by the public when off the stage, and most of the time, the papers could care less about what happened to some actor behind the curtain. Celebrity worship only started in the 1920s with moving pictures.

And don't get me started on internet news sites. They just transferred all the shit going on with newspapers and tv to the virtual realm.

Since it's inception.

Since AD200...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexamenos_graffito

The Alexamenos graffito (also known as the graffito blasfemo, or blasphemous graffito)[1]: 393  is a piece of Roman graffito scratched in plaster on the wall of a room near the Palatine Hill in Rome, Italy, which has now been removed and is in the Palatine Museum.[2] It may be meant to depict Jesus; if so, it competes with an engraved gem held in the British Museum as the earliest known pictorial representation of the Crucifixion of Jesus.[3][4] It is hard to date, but has been estimated to have been made around the year 200 AD.[5] The image seems to show a young man worshipping a crucified, donkey-headed figure. The Greek inscription approximately translates to "Alexamenos worships [his] god,"[6] indicating that the graffito was apparently meant to mock a Christian named Alexamenos.[7]

Here's the link to The British Museum "Magical Gem"

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1986-0501-1

Clearly anti-Christian as it depicts the crucifixion completely at odds with what we know today... estimated creation 2nd-3rd century...

I think the turn began to happen after 9/11 and MSNBC's hatred of George W. Bush which led into the ugly God like Worship of Obama.

As many have said, since its inception. But to get more "current," in 1932 Walter Duranty of the New York Times won a Pulitzer for his coverage (cover up, more accurately) about the conditions in the Ukraine during the Holodomor (something most people never heard about in school) where an estimated 10 million Ukrainians starved to death due to the policies of Stalin's that basically stole every morsel of wheat from the "bread basket of Europe," that led to mothers cooking their babies that had died before them.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/08/1097097620/new-york-times-pulitzer-ukraine-walter-duranty

And to tie this in to movies, check out Mr. Jones (2019) a movie made about Welsh journalist Gareth Jones, who sought to expose Duranty's lies. Jones died under mysterious circumstances in 1935.

For those who hold the NYT as the "pinnacle of journalism," do a little digging. They have had a hand in starting several other major wars due to their false reporting.

Since Edward R. Murrow