These days, uninformed is more akin to unmanipulated. Once upon a time, main stream media put ads in front of us and collected subscription fees, then provided relatively unvarnished information and op ed pieces. People didn't want to pay for their news, so started getting it for "free", but that "news" was also spun up to meet the agenda of the provider or whomever actually paid for that news. These days, what is called news is not the facts which may contain inconvenient truths. It is a custom news clipping service that feeds us whatever we want to hear or someone else wants us to hear. We often lack the attention span or motivation to get to the bottom of things, so are served up whatever floats to the surface.
The OP shows us how "news" is weaponized in the gathering, to achieve a desired state of mind in the audience. There is a chicken/egg issue, however. Do they do this because it is what they think we want to hear, or because it serves some unseen masters at the helm? Either way, pernicious and worth the effort to expose. We generally dislike people who have made what we consider lots of money, so the writer had that going from the beginning. The rest was just building on the dark side of human nature. Shame on us if we don't use our BS detection skills!