Parallel Reality Media Shows

It is a current practice to manifest media events with huge emotional value, often fabricated or created as needed, that semantically mimic real current events with no causal relationship whatsoever among them, the parallel and real events, and ultimately creating strong thinking patterns based on emotions that will influence the subjects' decisions regarding the evaluation of the targeted real events, without even mentioning them.

By example, you can increase, diminish or even ruin a political figure's reputation just by projecting some causally unrelated news that are very closely semantically related to what the subject is or was doing in his life without even mentioning that person.

Sometimes it is enough just to mention keywords built from past news that will trigger a whole mental process of acceptance or rejection or reloading of a certain political symbol or focus point of then current political paradigm.

It is impossible for any law enforcement institution to prosecute or sometime even to detect such activities.

And by the still legal means of the polls, or "other, more modern feedback tools"  they will know if the public is starting to realize what's going on and will gradually retract those news and replace them with ever more subtle ones.