Can any small community survive the kind of scrutiny that an organization like Netflix brings to it?

I recently finished watching Cheer on Netflix, and also reading a bunch of followup articles about it. A version of this question was asked during an interview I heard today with the creator of an NBC podcast called Southlake, which explores issues of racism in a small town high school.

Both of these stories have some similar features:

• A large organization comes to a small town to conduct interviews and tell a compelling story about some aspect of the town.
• The story focuses on specific people/issues in the town, though those people/issues have connections to larger themes.
• The story starts out as a fairly straightforward documentary-style "feel good" piece, but ends up surfacing one or more issues that, without the story being broadcast, would perhaps not have surfaced.
  
• Those issues end up having a lot of negative consequences for the town and/or the people featured in the story.

I'm curious about how much just the telling of these small town stories by these large organizations (and the accompanying social media exposure) contributes to the negative consequences that ensue.

A few additional notes:

• I have seen Cheer, but have not listened to the Southlake podcast.
• Mike Pesca is the one who asked a version of the question that I asked in the heading of this post, in his recent interview with Southlake's creator.
• Sarah Hepola's recent article in Texas Monthly explores some similar questions.