There is something particularly funny when social media is outraged ~~no one is talking about this!~~ when it is literally the top story for both the New York Times AND The Washington Post and both MSNBC and CNN have been talking about it a whole lot.
For context, I am in no way commenting in any way other than to say it is really damn strange to see people on social media say that there is no coverage of what is happening in Portland when this is the what the New York Times front page looks like right now:
And while it has since been moved to a lower spot on their page to make way for more recent breaking news, this is the current number one most read article at the Washington Post:
Basically what I am saying, and have been cautioning against for ages, is this impulse to equate what is and is not on your socail media feed to what actual news agencies are focusing on, and a very constant and obvious discrediting of journalists that occurs all the damn time on social media with baseless (and super easy to debunk) claims that journalists are never covering stories they are not only focusing on but are also highlighting.
