Forcing the broadcast of the Signal drama featuring Cho Jin-woong... does this even make sense?

No matter how much I think about it,
I just cannot understand this.
They should have just buried it. And now they're letting it see the light of day?
I understand that everyone can have different ideologies and political affiliations.
You can just look at it roughly as a 50:50 split.
But
forcing the broadcast of a drama starring Cho Jin-woong.
"We will repay you with a great work." Can they really just brush it off with that?