It never bothered them when they lost tons of money on the process. They weren’t designed to be profitable businesses; they are simply part of the cost of running a political machine.
What’s starting to bother them now is the realization that you can’t be an effective propaganda tool if nobody believes you.
In the old Soviet Union the average citizen knew that “Pravda” was not “truth” but rather a pile of lies.
After a while they learned to ignore it.
However, there was still one problem.
If they talked about how the mass media was lying in a public forum they could lose their job or become an outcast in social settings.
They did not know that this was a precursor to the West’s “cancel culture”.
Some folks around here are still in denial while they whine about Russia, Russia, Russia.
The US is acting just like the old Soviet Union—there is one approved narrative and anyone who suggests otherwise is peddling “false news”, “disinformation” and conspiracy theories—even if today’s approved narrative contradicts yesterday’s approved narrative!
(Examples of bizarre contradictions in the narrative during the Covid craziness:
—Two weeks to flatten the curve became two years to flatten the curve
—Masks were useless then they became essential
—Health care workers who were unvaxxed because there were no vaxxes were “heros” and then some of those same health care workers became “zeros” who were fired when they refused to take the vaxxes.)
Remember the story decades ago about $600 hammers? Those hammers are the propaganda tool.