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Whenever you're wondering why fake news took off so easilly and swindled so many to believe in complete total bollocks, consider the possibility that "liberal" newsmedia like the New York Times has long been pushing propaganda, weakening trust in the authoritativeness of the Press and in practice plowing the field that far right news outlets sowed.
It would've been a lot harder for the likes of Fox News to manipulate the political beliefs of Americans if the likes of the New York Times hadn't been doing "opinion forming" in favour of specific political idelogies rather than Journalism since well before Fox News came to the scene.
No one is immune from propaganda and just because a media outlet is historically part of "your team," it doesn't mean they don't engage in propaganda. The military and intelligence agencies manipulating the media has been a thing since the beginning of the Cold War.
You seem to be limited in your idea of what is possible by the constraints you live under in the US enviroment, including things like its falacious two-sides politics and the anti-Democratic relationship between most of the Press and the two parties of the Political Duopoly.
It's perfectly possible for a media outlet to be critical of that which deserves criticism independently of the "side" - it's what is known as "Journalistic Integrity". The US. however, has very very little of that.
Also that "it has always been so (in the US)" falacy neither turns it from a bad thing into a good thing nor proves that it's impossible for it to be otherwise - somehow some news publications in the US (and even more outside) manage to only be biased on occasion instead of being salesmen for a political side in every single news piece they publish.
Ultimatelly it's up to people to be more demanding with the news, especially those they pay for, and a bit more skeptical. Something as simple as punishing media outlets when they are so shamelessly biased as the NYT by not buying their publications or giving your time to their websites would be a much better push for a decent Press environment than coming up with falacious excuses for their actions.