Does anyone else think the "raised earnings outlook" news is being coordinated?

I watch the CNBC talking heads on YouTube, and over the past 2+ weeks there has been a constant stream of news about this or that analyst raising their earnings estimates on this or that company or industry. It feels like there's some kind of cabal of managers in the background, making sure the news flow is basically "earnings are still rising despite all the bad news." Has anyone else felt this?

I was just cutting my teeth during the 1999 dot-com buttle, and back in those Bad Old Days, there were lots of people buying stocks, then recommending them on TV or in the newspaper (the dead tree Internet), then profiting from that. I wonder in what form all of that manipulation is continuing in the current era, that we just can't see.