Silence is the signal.
A canary that stops singing is the warning. When a station has had no public report for weeks, the desk does not fill the gap; it counts the days and asks why.
No station is silent today
No station is silent today.
How a silence is counted
A station goes silent when the reports the desk relies on stop mentioning it: no new figures, no statement, no follow-up. The count starts on the day of the last public report and runs until a new one appears. A silence is not a finding about what is happening on the ground; it is a finding about what nobody is saying.
If you have a report on a silent station, send it to the desk.