My model never called for the NYT to never publish a single article referencing the draft during march 2023 (sorry I didn’t mention this), it called for there to be ~30 articles or so that avoided mentioning it for every one that did, which is what happened; even though it was one of the biggest social issues in Ukraine related to the war and people leaving the country. My model calls for journalists to have basic competence in plausible deniability, e.g. downstream of today’s high lawyers-per-capita. Furthermore
Ultimately, the spread on social media is what determines how many people see what information, not front pages, which is even less transparent and hard to research than seeing the journalists routinely and deliberately conceal information about the war.
Here is an example of the NYT prominently writing about how men weren’t allowed to leave in March 2022: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/world/europe/ukraine-poland-families-separation.html
My model never called for the NYT to never publish a single article referencing the draft during march 2023 (sorry I didn’t mention this), it called for there to be ~30 articles or so that avoided mentioning it for every one that did, which is what happened; even though it was one of the biggest social issues in Ukraine related to the war and people leaving the country. My model calls for journalists to have basic competence in plausible deniability, e.g. downstream of today’s high lawyers-per-capita. Furthermore
Furthermore, that article may have been relegated to a side column on the day of its publication, which fewer people click, and it does not mention the draft at all, instead featuring more of the obvious propaganda that I described.
Ultimately, the spread on social media is what determines how many people see what information, not front pages, which is even less transparent and hard to research than seeing the journalists routinely and deliberately conceal information about the war.