They're trying to get clicks because journos love posting fire, dead bodies, and blood because of the attention; but they also have to repeat the line for their masters.
Normally, they'd go one of 3 ways:
Not report on something to downplay the violence and claim there's no evidence
Ignore the line to get money from showing violence.
Use one news station to show violence, and a different one to ignore it, with both generating profits for the conglomerate that owns both of them
Instead they're going full cognitive dissonance mode where they show you the violence to get the clicks, then tell you it isn't happening to get the donor money, and they pull the same trick on every station!
It's new how open they are about it.
They're trying to get clicks because journos love posting fire, dead bodies, and blood because of the attention; but they also have to repeat the line for their masters.
Normally, they'd go one of 3 ways:
Instead they're going full cognitive dissonance mode where they show you the violence to get the clicks, then tell you it isn't happening to get the donor money, and they pull the same trick on every station!