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@inthehands That is a great contrast to draw, and great analysis.

Media coverage, when it’s not looking for shocking footage to rerun a hundred times, just wants to find a narrative. It has to be one sentence long. Whether it’s accurate doesn’t much matter.

The goal is to make viewers think “I understand this thing now” so they can view ads, and talk to their friends about what they saw, without being distracted by nuance or cognitive dissonance.