The media always have but whether you like it or not racism is a factor and the Tories and now Reform offer simple (but wrong) solutions and blame immigrants for much of the poor's problems. We no longer have a true unionised working class to combat that so the right wing support has increased.
The media have always been duplicitous bastards but I feel like what we saw in 2019 with the insane scrutiny put on Corbyn vs the free ride Johnson got was unprecedented. And labour only seem to be emboldening& amplifying those wrong solutions offered by Reform/Tories.
I guess you are much younger and don't remember the same or worse happening to likes of Kinnock. Milliband was even lampooned over his kitchen and a bacon sandwich. It really hasn't changed other than the papers being far less influential.
