Quick plotting wrap-up organization re: The testing of project jump

[theearth]

Edit: CLOSED

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Please decide quickly (we'll decide tomorrow morning GMT) as we'd like to bring this part of the plot to a quick conclusion so the teleporter's outlet location in Las Vegas can be announced officially.

[media digest] Everyone wonders what the fox says, but how does the fox feel?

[theearth]

With the media starting to play a larger role, the purpose of this post is to be a digest and master post for everything that the media (newspapers, radio, TV, internet, etc) have said and will say. This post covers what gets aired/published about the numbered up until the 25th of August. This includes content created by both players and mods, regardless of if it stems from numbered and their allies, their opponents, or neutral third sources.

GUIDELINES

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- You may either link to a post that you made which contained a media voice (like this) or or create small articles/opinion pieces/internet discussions/interviews/statements/etc and put them into the body of the comment, (like this).
- Please use this form: <b>Date:</b> <b>Type of media/location if applicable:</b> <b>Link/Content:</b>
- Please use the appropriate one of these threads (5-11, 12-18,19-25) to link/post your media voices.
- If your media voice talks about a small group of reincarnates or one reincarnate in specific, please make sure that you have their players' permission to have the media talk about them in this way.

THE GENERAL CURRENT STATE OF THE MEDIA

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- Both negative and positive voices regarding the numbered can be heard. There has been a massive surge in negative opinions after the theft of Project Jump, and they now outnumber the positive/neutral voices. The talk about them having a startling amount of power that they are hiding and about reincarnate influence behind the scenes, and the questioning if they have hidden plans and motifs that are sinister in nature, have now partly turned into claims that they have sinister plans, are common criminals with superpowers, are a threat to public safety, and so on. There are also voices who talk about how Thunder Corp is acting oddly when it comes to the machine itself, but those are more on alternative channels.
- A local Locke newspaper runs a series on the reincarnates that is mostly critical opinion pieces about the numbered as a group. A local Locke radio station, Energy Up, fills its free broadcasting time with more or less fact-based pieces about the reincarnates, laced with gossip and speculations about their mental state and how dangerous they really are to the city. Fox News has run a 3-part reportage about the numbered in both cities in much the same spirit. A couple of other media outlets from both areas generally cover reincarnates and their actions or powers in a negative, sensationalistic, distrustful light, though they don't go out of their way to talk about them. But there still is an equal amount of news outlets that show them in a positive or neutral light.
- Currently, only the Energy Up radio station in Locke and no news outlet in Vegas runs pieces about specific numbered, and only about those that are high-profile in some shape or form - especially flashy, especially odd or powerful, or rich/celebrities/relatives of important people/etc. THE EXCEPTION is in both cities that there are now pieces everywhere about the numbered that were involved in the theft and in Petunia's rescue - or rather, whatever is known about them to the public. The former are overwhelmingly negative, the latter overwhelmingly positive.
- The internet is a vast place as well, and seedlings, conspiracy theorists and many others discuss the reincarnates - they might have fans or vicious haters here, self-proclaimed specialists on the numbered and so on. In general, the attitudes are fairly similar to those in the official media outlets.

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