Your literal blackout analogy falls apart pretty quickly when you consider that this story lives in the attention economy, a seething ocean of information all v

Your literal blackout analogy falls apart pretty quickly when you consider that this story lives in the attention economy, a seething ocean of information all vying for our eyeballs. It's more like there's a town (with power) and somewhere there a light that's blue and nobody can see it from the air, and you think everyone in an airplane should be able to see it. Maybe there is a vast conspiracy, but just because this one story didn't show up in in the mainstream news, reputable or otherwise, doesn't mean there's a conspiracy against blue lights.