Lede
He stands. Cameras clap. That is the whole plot, yet it gets a push alert.

What does not make sense

• Headlines about Bar(r)on for doing ordinary things while real stories wait for a microphone.
• Editors who call it public interest when it is only public curiosity.
• A press pack that treats a family cameo as statecraft.
• The attention machine that pays more for a balcony wave than for a line-by-line read of a bill.
• Turning a young man into a mirror for a father’s brand.

The comic sketch

Scene one: Bar(r)on walks from a lift. Lower thirds scream “Developing”.
Scene two: Bar(r)on sits at a table. Live blogs count the minutes.
Scene three: Bar(r)on says nothing. Panels debate what the silence means for the nation.

Cut to the corner where the boring but vital story has no mic.

The king father

The court loves a king. Our modern one thrives on spectacle, grievance and gold-leaf promises. He soaks up airtime while the costs of his greatest hits fall on people who do not own towers. Cover the throne by all means, but cover the deeds. If there is policy, test it. If there is money, follow it. If there is only a family cameo, bin it.

Sense check

A teenager becoming click-bait is not accountability. It is brand maintenance for power. If a headline has no action, no policy, no impact, it is not news. It is fan service.

The Hermit take

Leave Bar(r)on alone. Hold the father to the fire. The job is to report power, not to glamorise the orbit around it.

Keep or toss

Toss the heir-watch. Keep the work that checks facts, follows money and names consequences.