Iran War Coverage: When Too Much Truth Obscures the Real Question

There are no lies to document here. This is a piece about what happens when too much truth, reported accurately and in good faith, makes a different and prior truth structurally inaccessible. The mechanism requires no coordination, no bad faith, and no failure of journalism. It requires only that the most urgent story fills the available frame — and that the frame, once full, leaves no room for the question that would contextualize everything inside it. That mechanism has a name.