Since inception, really, but verifiable media complicity began with Hearst during the Spanish-American war, although the Business Plot shouldn't have ever allowed anyone to fall back asleep. Throw in Operations Gladio and Condor, along with Freud's nephew, Bernays, working with the US government, along with USAid, radio free *, the funding of violent Islam and fascists, Operation Paperclip, revised/whitewashed history, home ownership, auto industry, GI Bill, relative luxury on the backs of Asia, the Eastern Bloc, global South, invading/cripple sanctioning of sovereign states to checks notes prove actually existing socialism doesn't work, and lots of other wtfery, it was easy for the global West, especially USA citizens, to turn a willfully bind eye, to suck down more cheap shit, then cry foul when states they brutally oppressed somehow managed to rise to and exceed Western living standards. Throw Lee Atwater and the Southern strategy, it's no wonder I and my compatriots were thoroughly convinced the truth are commie lies and Western lies are the truth. The only excuse now is willful ignorance, though.