To the editorial boards of the Washington Post and the New York Times, the presidential election is a kind of Hunger Games. It's a spectacle to be milked for its entertainment value. If it's not entertaining enough for them, they'll create some new narrative that makes things more dramatic.
The fact that this political context has profound effects on people's lives doesn't matter to them. They want to be in control of the narrative, creating drama.
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