I feel like they've mostly dispensed with the pretense of needing "consent" from anyone who isn't calling shots on what to print in the newspapers in the first place. This seems more like "we'll do what we want and don't care to even conceal our motives anymore." And other commenters are right to point out that it's very premature when it's not clear there's been a genuine change in power, so it may be calculated to make that seem inevitable as well.

"Manufactured consent" was a term Chomsky introduced for the way in which US mass media operates, so it shouldn't be terribly surprising to find that the pattern matches. (One thing I'd encourage people to think about: would it be better to have a media that avoids manufacturing consent by never challenging the general public's biases and preconceptions?)