It’s fair advice to consider where the chain of command goes behind any source or outlet, when gauging how credible the story presented is. But honestly? Even if this was the worst possible thing, a cynical propaganda story put out with a distinct purpose of harming the station-owner’s enemies, I’m not sure it’s even necessary. Hardly anyone is on the writers/actors side in this debate. Normal people are just watching stuff on our streaming platforms and not giving a fuck for a bunch of entitled assholes who don’t do real work for a living, just because they’re up against some other entitled assholes who don’t do real work for a living. Sure, I occasionally see some Very Online lefties claiming solidarity, but I’d bet 90 percent of Americans are in the range between mild disinterest to outright apathy to “fuck em all!”