I'm not sure how this could have survived any beta testing, but why are the special events claimed in a real time format?
The AI can grab those special events before I even see that they exist and this is a huge advantage over the course of the game. The turn changes from one week to the next and before I know what has happened (sometimes when the news summary is popping up), the AI candidate is popping around the map grabbing the special events, turning them into storytellers, media darlings, or whatever.
How can this be the way this was intended to operate? The AI should not be able to get EVERY special event. Will this be fixed at some point?