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Originally Posted by parafly
In my opinion, the biggest factor of selective coverage is nothing more than prioritizing "more dramatic" over "less dramatic." We can discuss the choices which are made for political reasons, but at the end of the day, the story that attracts more attention from the layman is the story that gets the most coverage.
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Ignores the fact that coverage leads to attention, attention does not in fact lead to coverage in the immediate aftermath of any event, as the power of the masses "attention" is diffiuclt to guage or measure in the short term after an event transpires.
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In a sense, we are all drawn toward the extraordinary and what we can relate to the most. A dozen people dying in a car accident happens every day, a dozen times over. A massacre in a movie theater has never happened in my lifetime.
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And yet, in the aftermath, many wish to have a serious discussion on fundamental change to our basic rights as citizens over the shooting, but no coversation of any kind of the "dozens" who die in car accidents "every day", or the issue of 23 illegal immigrants in a single truck.