“Hey. Why doesn’t anyone write about Y?” With Y, in this instance, being some topic upon which many, many people have expounded, in many, many places, but that they have not personally been exposed to, and thus have come to believe doesn’t exist.'
It’s not that they simply failed to “pay attention,” as we like to mourn; it’s that they have quite specifically organized their news not to tell them about it.
By Dahlia Lithwick
https://slate.com/business/2024/03/news-algorithm-why-weve-gotten-so-bad-at-the-news.html
@corlin thanks for posting that! Good stuff as always from Lithwick.