See also: "Southern Water were fined a record £90 million for illegally dumping raw sewage into the sea across the south coast. The company wilfully discharged untreated sewage 7,000 times between 2010- 2015" but actually it was seagulls that did it, and their lobby is so influential you don't know about it.
Creative challenges - pitch stories for a 2024 version of a thriller like "24"
Catch - you can ONLY use actual real pulled from reality (if not alas mainstream reporting) storylines...
post a bunch of these pitches, make a handful - but only a couple - entirely fictional - see if anyone can pick those out}
Related/similar - pitch parody news stories ala The Onion - can anyone tell which aren't actual parodies? ([#nottheonion may be one of my most used hashtags in recent years)