No automated self serve checkouts.

This one came to my mind too. What’s surreal is it comes out of nowhere, and just adds a level of rawness and authenticity to the game you never thought existed. I think it’s brilliant.

It can be, and it’s a valid point. But some countries do publicly fund their government broadcaster and have safeguards in place to maintain journalistic integrity. It can be done properly.

Australia is one: https://about.abc.net.au/who-we-are/the-abc-board/. The ABC regularly has fact checking articles for politicians on all sides and has exposed many a government scandal over the years.