politics equals more views on MSM, and newspapers. homicides/terrorism is part of that, so is drugs. just like how they dont really report on climate change, or disease.
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1% homicide is still 3.4 million people.
Natural causes will never be news, except when a major medical breakthrough occurs. It's simply not interesting to the population.
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Isn't this normal for news? The whole dog bites man, man bites dog thing?
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Where's the rest of the infographic?
Fucking great visual.
Would be interesting to see it in a stacked bar graph with actual va. represented side by side to give scale to the disproportionism.
It’d be neat to see some other news outlets as well. I’m sure there’s a massive difference.
I doubt it.
NGL.. let's be real here.
Your average New York Joe Blowhole who's 67, obese, diabetic and smoked since he was 15 isn't going to be as newsworthy a story as a murder is, the day he drops dead of a heart attack in his living room.
Outside of the obit a family member puts in the paper, why would the newspapers report on such an everyday death?
Natural causes of death, are ho-hum.
The newspapers report on the things that aren't the run-of-the-mill, occurrences.
True, but/and let’s consider something like a more conservative outlet (relative to NYT) in 2023. Who’s president? What issues are getting talked up pre-election? I’m guessing we’ll see something like drugs and homicide taking a massive chunk of the news relative to what the NYT reported. Even regional news will differ — ever turn on the daytime news in Las Vegas? It’s all car chases and interviews with shooting witnesses. You’d think nothing else happened in the world. Just an interesting experiment.
Oh Yeah, to that, definitely. I always get a chuckle out of the Fox TV stations across the country that will have local horror stories.. Sometimes absolutely lurid in detail.
The reporting vogue seems to be Families Gone Bad in the Upper Midwest..
most of the MSMs are pretty much the same. FOX isnt a true news source.
most of them barely mentions the other categories on the left column.
Why is COVID (2.2%) below Suicide (2.1%) on the graph on the left? Everything else is in decending order of occurance
I've had various family members die from all of the most common things in the top 2/3 of the causes of death. It sucks. But I wouldn't want there to be a story about it in the NY Times about it... because why would they do that?
They're journalists not doctors, treating heart disease and cancer isn't their jobs and it's not all that interesting to write about.
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What about shootings? I don't believe that shootings doesn't make this chart for a second.
Homicides, surely.
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