I have been using audiobooks frequently to help me fall asleep. For me it has to be the right tone of voice and not a high pitched voicy or jerky style enunciation.
Straight up. They spew forth this stupid reasoning so that the general public will become frightened. Most people don't understand what any AV does, or how it operates anyway. For them to understand compartmentalization based on dependencies is way too far out there. The US government might have granted access as well in another effort to spread fear amongst the uneducated American populus.