Government agencies and non-profit organizations established to fix some problem or shed light on some issue of "concern", no matter how worthy, all soon begin to exhibit self-survival behaviors just like every other living organism. It does not benefit them to solve the problem they were tasked to solve or fix because then they would no longer have a reason to exist.
News media tasked with providing a continual stream of information about something to us all, when short on "significant" information must make the insignificant seem significant, i.e. hype the trival or otherwise focus on some statistcally meaningless event or just get us all worried about something that might intrude in our lives with less probability than being hit by lightning. Usually, we are already aware of the things we should be worried about. Further, the most complex problems will never be solved by agencies because by definition agencies act for us and most important complex problems require our direct participation. We invent agencies to solve problems when we don't care about whether or when those problems are ever solved or not.
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