The problem isn’t “people think something else is important” — it’s mostly that nobody hears about the big issue in the first place because the press is covering other issues.
So is it our fault or the press’s fault that the thing you want covered isn’t getting enough coverage?
And again, that doesn’t change the point. They can still write about this. It doesn’t mean other things people care about are a needless distraction. They are important to you. And I’m sure someone could point at this article and go “this is a distraction, while you were arguing about this, you should’ve actually cared about z issue.”
It’s a race to the bottom. The lack of coverage of this issue does not mean we have to say everyone else has bad priorities. It’s not a zero sum game. The press can cover multiple things. The only critique should be that the press has not covered this adequately.
Almost all of the local press in swing states failed to cover Trump’s corrupt offer to oil executives.
The problem isn’t “people think something else is important” — it’s mostly that nobody hears about the big issue in the first place because the press is covering other issues.
So is it our fault or the press’s fault that the thing you want covered isn’t getting enough coverage?
And again, that doesn’t change the point. They can still write about this. It doesn’t mean other things people care about are a needless distraction. They are important to you. And I’m sure someone could point at this article and go “this is a distraction, while you were arguing about this, you should’ve actually cared about z issue.”
It’s a race to the bottom. The lack of coverage of this issue does not mean we have to say everyone else has bad priorities. It’s not a zero sum game. The press can cover multiple things. The only critique should be that the press has not covered this adequately.
It not one or the other — there’s a relationship between the lack of coverage, and people not being concerned.
If you’re calling it a distraction, then yes, it is literally one or the other. One is distracting from the other.
It seems like news also used to cover issues that were important, that people should care more about, even if they don’t.
Then we had Jon Stewart to cover (in the context of comedy) important news that News didn’t bother with
Now we have nothing