Articles in the press often have to be read while thinking "assuming that this article is literally accurate, what might be wrong about the impression it's tryi

Articles in the press often have to be read while thinking "assuming that this article is literally accurate, what might be wrong about the impression it's trying to give?" If you read the article while thinking this, you'll notice that this article nowhere says things like "the report accused Stanford of being used to launder government censorship, but in fact the government has no involvement with..." or "the report points to ___ incident but that has nothing to do with following government requests" or "no, these incidents didn't happen" or anything else which substantively denies the accusations. It just says Stanford is accused of censorship by those evil conservatives, and this has costs, and we're deeply concerned about it. Well, yeah, if you get caught doing bad things, it should cost you and you should be concerned.