We ignore it because it is not realistic to expect "the populace" to suddenly wake up and become thinkers and philosophers.
The population generally accepts whatever it hears, especially if it is repeated endlessly. We should be addressing the problem of those who exploit this naive characteristic of the populace to advance their political world view instead of expecting the populace to "do better."
They aren't going to do better. That's not how our current reality works.
I think it's a little unfair to blame the populace.
The populace has other things going like working, taking care of their families and their own health and hobbies.
Most people aren't policy wonks. We should be able to trust the press to do the old 'who, what, where and when' thing we were taught in journalism class.
It is way too easy to spin anything without actually lying .. although they are not above that.
Ignore this thing and emphasize this other thing and you have a whole new take on things.
It's easier now to dig out news for ourselves but we shouldn't have to. We SHOULD be able to expect a Free and Fair press and we certainly don't have one now.