Remember "Ronald Reagan is an actor/puppet", or "apparent airhead" (via official presidential biographer Edmund Morris)?

They've always been biased and/or in the pocket of the deep state, we just didn't have the tools to keep them in check. Now that we have decentralized reporting, fact checking and distribution via the internet they are necessarily showing their true colors having to compete and being disrupted.

... fell at free-fall speeds as if all support structure simultaneously and suddenly lost all structural integrity, from fire.

Orange Man Bad Meme from Prince of Zimbabwe is the only appropriate response at that point.