To me it sounds demeaning to speak of people like 'bodies'. For example in my native language (Dutch), it would create associations with dead people. Wouldn't it be the same in American English?
Sidenote: for those who think it's strange to use the word 'bodies' instead of 'people' (includes me): apparently this originates out of something called Critical Race Theory. An explanation of the term can be found here: https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-bodies/.
I don't know a lot about the Julian Assange case, but it's obvious that very powerful interests are at play here. This single point ought to be reason enough for journalists to put the issue front and center.
Don't know why you're being downvoted. These all are perfectly reasonable concerns. I've seen many GUI frameworks fail because of a mix of these reasons.
I was writing POS applications in the 90s. And ringing up customers needs speed and responsiveness. Windows was way too slow at the time, that's why POS applications even to this day often still work in character mode, or DOS-graphics.
PS I know it's becoming less and less of an issue these days, but you get my point.
When I started learning C++, there was't a C++ compiler available for my Atari ST (late 80s), there was only Borland C. So instead I used the C preprocessor to emulate classes, virtual functions etcetera. Not everything could be implemented this way, but it looked like C++ close enough for me to learn it.