Let me delve a little deeper. What do you get if you are the CIA and you start a talent agency in the 1970s?
1. You get to pick Americas next hot singers, actors, songs and movies and shape the narrative through them.
2. You get to shape who is soon to be MSM reporters and anchors.
3. You get these people to blackmail eachother and give you the tapes.
4. You get black ops money from all of the above.
5. You create the perfect spy X THOUSANDS.
6. You create partner agencies that go into sports and politics
7. You become a world wide company who does the above in every country.
8. You control every aspect of how people think and feel.
You become https://en.wikipedia.org/w...
Questions?

TRUTH ..but THEY started LOOOOOnnnnGGGGG BEFORE 1970...go BACK FARTHER to the 1920's. Yup...It's that old. LONG before TV dominated, THEY used Newspaper/print media. and gained thousands of young 'recruits' to do THEIR bidding via honeypots. All in the name of 'defeating the commies'. It was basic brainwashing 101. With TV it just became faster and faster.