I chose to upvote you because you make interesting point, but "todays media landscape" cannot be more than weakly-explained by NSA spying on us --- it was a problem back before the war on terror. Media has sucked for decades.
Yes, but before media had a severely limited distribution system compared to the internet and it was media consolidation that led to easy censorship of certain issues. Now it's open and sucks in completely different ways that is probably more to the way people pay for media or don't than spies.
