The joke on them is that in a collapse the Rancid Media would be one of the first casualties. The government would conmtrol the press with an iron boot, as opposed to its having to first take the press out to dinner now before screwing it.
I think the media would be doing what it’s doing right now; cheerleading for its leader and bashing any stated opposition to the regime. What other choice would they have?
Conservative media would be dismantled. The existing MSM media would continue on as today, perhaps worse if that’s possible.