"In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies -- the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant.
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." [0]
Most people don't perceive these changes to affect them/their daily lives, so they are not concerned with it. They don't care.