"Fetid". Very apt description. I think the only way you can stifle lies is to voice the truth. Lies have an energy of their own, created by the speaker of the lies. That energy is drawn from lies inside the speaker, but draws its real power from the emotional and spiritual responses of those who listen and believe in the lies. Truth opens to the door for the heart and mind to access deeper, more healthy, more organic power from the true source. That's what 'awakening' is, in the spiritual sense or in the sense of the original 'Great Awakening" (1730-40).  So its information warfare. Patriots have to find more and more avenues to voicing the truth. Eventually, the fetid media will collapse. But I think you're right. It is at least one, if not the, real problem.