In part at least, though I am sure it is more complex than this, the answer to "that question" is. That the author of the video is a journalist, and he has therefore, because of the world in which he operates, which could be called, the media bubble and its own echo chamber, an exaggerated view of the power and scope of the media and journalism.

Just as Putin in his own political bubble and echo chamber, achieved an exaggerated view of what his plots and propaganda were achieving. That of course, in part, is what in the end pushes all tyrants over the edge into madness, because no one lives more completely in an echo chamber, so utterly divorced from reality and and evidence of the real world, than political leaders, especially dictators.