Narrowing News and Drive-By Journalism
Two stories hogged the attention of Americans in 2007 with “reverse trajectories,” at first the war in Iraq, which declined in interest as the ’08 Presidential elections took over the spotlight.
That’s a main conclusion of the State of the News Media 2008 report, just released by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, which also cites “markedly short attention span” stories such as the Virginia Tech massacre, the Minneapolis bridge collapse and the California wildfires, one-week wonders that drew intense coverage and suddenly faded from sight.
Subjects least covered last year included urban sprawl, the legal and court system, religion, transportation, education, and race, gender and sexual identity issues, none of which attracted more than 1% of coverage over all.
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I don't think it is human nature to be able to maintain outrage about a growing list of problems. Many rant, some deny, and some of us retreat into an increased devotion to solutions that go to the root of the problems. For me that simplified remedy is to improve the quality and judgment of our elected representatives so that our public policies are increasingly based on pragmatism, long term views, open mindedness, and embrace of robust debate. And not on knee jerk ideology, special interests, self interest, and xenophobia.
Most of our problems give early warnings and the viable solutions are often few if we only would aim to elect the wisest among us.