There is a difference between knowing about two things at once and concentrating reporting time, especially news inches and time, on two.https://twitter.com/mccanner/status/808695616817790976 …
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@mccanner You and others may be competent news consumers. Many in our society aren't. Watch what gets more airtime and discussion.
yeah, 'cause CNN was totally going to be covering Aleppo otherwise? They'd look for ANYTHING else.
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There are more people on the Internet than other reporters.
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is your idea that there's someone out there who would ordinarily be reading news about Aleppo who is not because of Kanye?
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right, and my presumption of
@Peter__Leonard's point (or at least my own) is that Aleppo is latest iteration of systemic problems. -
Quite. The charge that worrying that trivialisation of the news is joy-killing is one I'll just have to swallow.
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