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The sane-washing has a large component of normalcy bias. Like the experiment where the participants sit in a waiting room and smoke is puffed under the door, but some of them are planted to sit there calmly and ignore it, so as to see how long it takes for the others to start acting as though there might be a fire and they should do something.

So yeah, some of the media ignoring the smoke are definitely doing it deliberately, and regrettably, there is a real fire.