State media as the name suggests plays a part to educate and inform its citizens, conspiracy theories and propaganda aside. Look at the india import of foreign workers and the backlash, if the media were to blast daily that they are needed to finish building our 43k delayed btos as well as other infrastructure of importance, instead of reporting 3 full weeks of myanmar civil war, why would the citizens develop a perceived xenophobic complex? Takes two hands to clap and to take the short cut out to cut salaries and costs, the general has now made sph a social enterprise (i work in one i know that "benefits")...bah