Looking back reading Manufacturing Consent at a young age was one of the most important things I did. It sets you up for a liberating life of zero expectations for media.
A. Because it's neither rare nor well done.
It was amusing to see Chinese tabs pull a tar-baby on Trump a few weeks ago, with regard to the trade treaty. When communists have tabloid journalism and hedge funds, it gets difficult to tell them apart from the capitalists. At least "having too few political parties" still seems a reasonable tell for repressive states.
(to be fair, ad-supported journalism has had a much longer run than I'd thought it would)
Edit: older than I'd thought:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china/chinese-a...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-trade-trump/tru...