manufactured outrage

The King of the Airwaves

Cora and Alex had tried to break the spell. They had shown the lawsuits, the court transcripts where the network itself admitted that no reasonable person would mistake its content for real news. They had pleaded with their parents to see the truth, to recognize the cycle of fear and outrage that kept them glued to the screen, trapped in a world that didn’t exist.

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The Opposition

The Chairman hadn’t won the election. The opposition had lost it before the first votes were even cast. Their candidate framed the election as a choice between democracy and dictatorship, but that wasn’t what the people saw. They weren’t voting for democracy—they were voting against a system that had already failed them.

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