I didn't have to work hard at all. It was one of the top four hits on my first search. It doesn't really matter how old it is. It's a lie, I heard it repeated many, many times. It was (probably still is) the standard orthodoxy among the major media, including the public media.

If they lie, they have a hidden agenda. I get much better information with the kinds of sourced I use now than I ever got from the public news sources. You can continue to use them if you want, but I can't see any reason to use them myself.

You're not entitled to expect everyone else to subscribe to your view of the world, SRS. You're entitled to choose which sources you'll use for getting news. You're not entitled to tell me which sources I should use for that purpose.