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Chapter 440: Public Shock
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2026-03-18 00:06:19The shock did not arrive as outrage.
It arrived as silence.
For twelve minutes after the commission released its interim finding, the major networks did not speak. Analysts stared at screens. Anchors waited for confirmation they no longer needed. Producers, trained to frame catastrophe quickly, hesitated.
Because this was not catastroph
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