Sounding Off: How news outlets covered Ash Ketchum becoming a

While anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock for the past two decades could probably tell you that these headlines were reporting about the plot of an anime, the very sports-formatted headlines from all of these major news outlets struck a chord with me. While Pokémon’s perpetually 10-years-old hero, the world that has been created around him and his sporting accomplishments within it are all very much not real, his feat was reported on in similar manner to a Wall Street Journal headline from 2016: “Chicago Cubs Win the World Series, Ending 108-Year Drought.” 

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