They surely must recognise the damage they are doing themselves by engaging in obvious yellow journalism against a target who literally has an audience of millions of young people very familiar with him.
They are literally teaching young people not to trust the mainstream press.
I would think that would be the effect, but somehow through all of this people just blindly believe what the media tells them - this is the astonishing part of it, how passive people have become they will just believe anything.
His audience is full of people who understand and appreciate his types of comedy etc, by doing this you just shown them a biased media - this is the generation the media need to get back on side to retain a shred of control, all this has achieved is to alienate his 53 million person fan base.
A job well done I guess because you forced disney and youtube's hand in having him removed but you haven't silenced him or cut his revenue stream - so congratulations to the mainstream media mouthpiece.