Situations like this go in a cycle. An agency makes this change. People in the scanning community react to it and nothing will change in regards to the agency making a decision to do this.
The major area media appears to have made no real effort for access. Quite evident in recent moves by major cities in the metro area doing this as well. (i.e. Lakeood & Aurora)
One notices less coverage of events in agencies that have gone this direction unless a fire agency is involved or a PIO releases information.
Media in Colorado has shifted away from trying to get stories themselves to relying on people telling them what is happening. I guess they just see all the encryption as part of the change.
All media in Colorado rely heavily on PIO information. They rarely send crews to a scene or get information themselves if it is not in the immediate area. It is very easy to see that most of the content comes from either the PIO or social media. Why do the work when everyone else can do it for you?
If the PIO does not or will not provide information regarding an incident, then it effectively never happened in the eyes of the media. This is probably the scariest thing with all this, but the media seems to be content with the situation.
Colorado doesn't seem have a big market for breaking news. By the time Colorado media talks about breaking news, you can be guaranteed that the event has been ongoing for a couple of hours or has already concluded. On the other hand, they have no problem with live helicopter footage of a police pursuit 800 miles away in California because their sister stations are more on top of things.