If by "efforts to ensure those patterns remain forgotten" you mean "do literally nothing because the public has the attention span of a goldfish" then yes.

The people buying and consuming the news are as guilty as the people making and selling it. The modern state of affairs exists by ambivalent forces present in any large population. It did not need to be engineered by any elite cabal, and it does not perpetuate merely because people are ignorant of what's in the archives.