Alexy took the theory of general practical discourse as the fundamental of legal argumentation from a different angle. He tried to reach some"certain conclusion"through a series of rules on procedures.
The conclusion: Certain types of hard news stories can be considerably more lucrative for the sites that run them than click-friendly lowest-common-denominator sensationalism.
Also, an agenda-driven researcher can easily cherry-pick certain anomalous proxies that support a predetermined conclusion while ignoring a much larger set of proxies that tell a different story.