When Bukele ordered the purchase of Bitcoin a month back, there was huge outcry in El Salvador. It got louder when the exchange rates crashed from $45,000 to $42,000. Some rioters even burned down the Bitcoin ATMs. But the current exchange rate is $57,000 (which represents a 30% upswing from the rate at the time of purchase). And incidentally the mainstream media has gone silent on this issue, although they were churning anti-Bitcoin articles at a rate of a dozen per minute earlier.
They will always do that, why? Because it would make the nation better. What you need to understand is that if the nation is doing awesome and everything is doing great then there is no news to sell. News is not a business where you share information with the people, that would be the most boring thing in the entire world, and nobody would watch that news in the end.
What makes news sell is the rage and there needs to be some issues that they need to sell in order to make it watchable otherwise it is not going to be good business for them. Imagine a news channel that is like "nothing bad happened today, this is the weather, this is the sports results, everything seems fine, we are all happy, things are so good", would you watch that?
I mean news is like "the people you hated did something you hated look how horrible this is!!!! isn't it disgusting???" and that is how they get attention. They just made 30% profit from the place they got in and the nation is doing better, that is not news, that would not sell views.