I’d say the embassy did a good job of exporting the American journalistic experience.

The only point of inauthenticity is that neither journalist suffered any lasting physical harm.

> The only point of inauthenticity ...

And that the fuzz "disagreed with detaining them". The real experience involves them doubling, tripling down, etc. and threatening to "find a reason". By their logic, they are never and could never be wrong.