I mean maybe but there's no way he did that on purpose

Oh absolutely not. That's the funny thing. He wanted the press to be heroes, but looking at the hell they put themselves through to get the fascist president's 3 final words on the record, it's like, "that's it?! That's worth getting your friends killed? Him saying 'Don't kill me'?"

I don't know man, the part with the zoomer sniper was basically him turning to the camera and saying "the press is stupid on purpose"