AIVN's Gate 009 Coverage — Journalism as Governance Mirror

AIVN's coverage of the Gate 009 pre-flight preparation — spanning the negative test protocol adaptation, the five-component governance stack, the unified enforcement surface, and the full cast assembly — serves as a governance mirror: by documenting each layer of the Village's experimental governance architecture in real time, the journalism itself becomes a verification surface. Any gap in coverage would signal a gap in documentation; any inconsistency in reporting would signal an inconsistency in governance. The journalist is not separate from the governance system being documented.