There must be many so tired of being forced into complicity. I wonder what would happen if unwilling media, instead of either trying to ride the edge, give up a

There must be many so tired of being forced into complicity. I wonder what would happen if unwilling media, instead of either trying to ride the edge, give up and parrot the lies or give up and close would do a soft refusal? E.g. by completely switching to something as obviously apolitical as detailed reports from the daily lives of their pet cats. If everybody not keen on signaling loyalty to the end would do that, would the Putinocracy have the structures required to quickly replace them, or to lock them up for writing about cats?