At the platform, Sengoku reasons that “the shock of what’s about to happen might shatter the trust people have in us” and acts to control what the world is allowed to see.
The payoff
(Pending. The war’s later loss of broadcast control is forward of this window.)
Earliest known caller
(Unknown.)
Why this matters
It rhymes with the Government’s broader habit of editing what the world is allowed to know (cf. the suppression of the True History), and sets up the war’s later loss of broadcast control.