Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Causes vs. Coverage

No one expects news coverage to reflect reality 100%, but it's eye-opening just how distorted it is. And I'm not talking about Fox News, either. 

The book Copaganda gave one perspective on this, but here's a simpler one. Data from Our World in Data:

I imagine most of the coverage of cancer, heart disease, and other medical causes occurs in either science/health stories (usually not in the main news section) or the obituaries.

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