What I increasingly see is that mainstream news is in it's own bubble, they report on things that they think are very relevant from their point of view, but the rest of the country really couldn't give a damn about.
The two shining example of this in my mind are: Claudine Gay and Jan 6. The right is very up in arms about the whole Claudine Gay situation but in reality she is just one president of one school and that piece of news really doesn't matter to anyone outside of that small bubble around Harvard and higher ed. Likewise on the left we have Jan 6 which they constantly push as a terrible thing to happen to our democracy.
Again if you are in DC then it's an important issue but if you're the rest of the country, it was a terrible thing that happened one day and then the government continued to operate normally.
And this goes for the vast majority of issues the news covers these days and the shame in all of this is these stories that seem important but in the end aren't really that important take the spotlight away from stories of actual importance.
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What I increasingly see is that mainstream news is in it's own bubble, they report on things that they think are very relevant from their point of view, but the rest of the country really couldn't give a damn about.
The two shining example of this in my mind are: Claudine Gay and Jan 6. The right is very up in arms about the whole Claudine Gay situation but in reality she is just one president of one school and that piece of news really doesn't matter to anyone outside of that small bubble around Harvard and higher ed. Likewise on the left we have Jan 6 which they constantly push as a terrible thing to happen to our democracy. Again if you are in DC then it's an important issue but if you're the rest of the country, it was a terrible thing that happened one day and then the government continued to operate normally.
And this goes for the vast majority of issues the news covers these days and the shame in all of this is these stories that seem important but in the end aren't really that important take the spotlight away from stories of actual importance.