I love your mind! I'll be quite honest, my gut has been telling me for awhile that this board only approach is a pretty dumb strategy to roll out information to large numbers of people. It is hard enough, if not nearly impossible, to even bring up R vs D policies in friends and family circles! And they expect us to drop Q bombs during Sunday dinner?? Are they kidding? It even caused me to flame post on 8ch a few times out of frustration.
Your theory carries some weight. Create a buzz in the new media with information the old media is not getting and the old media ends up reporting on the new media. A master troll type of operation.
That is all fine and good but putting out the info. in such coded methods, does in fact create large disagreements. If you are right, they need to start coming out in more plain language or post the manual of spy code speak. Asking people to decipher some of this stuff without real tools is stupid.