Christian Science Monitor: "Overexposure: When media coverage blocks out the sun"

A relevant article on the state of the media ( the mainsream North American media to be exact) and how they cover things today. A lot of issues that we worry about are the issues in the media. When the issues arent there then we arent worried. ( We being the muslim community and/or the general community). An example was the cartoon issue which came and went at the will of the media. It was an issue before the media made it an issue and then it died down while it is still an issue right now! ( as in things really did not change when the issue died down) Moreover if we divide each issue into subsets, the media really wants focus on one subset. In other words they define the frame with which each issue is looked at. Do you remember Hurricane Katrina? I thought and think the ammount of coverage the event initially received and the coverage it receives one year after the event is immensely dispropotional. Dont we want to know what happened to the thousands of people who got displaced? Same can be said about other disasters. Anyways please do read this article:

"It is an enormously complicated world, and every day, all over, things happen that matter. It may sometimes seem that stories come from nowhere, like the terrorist attacks on 9/11. But it's often the case that these events are surprises only because we weren't paying attention, and we probably weren't paying attention because the media weren't paying attention.

There are reasons people buy books or pay to see movies. Plots are nice. Stories move from A to B to C and at the end,generally, everything is tied together nicely. But the news isn't amovie or a book. Stories rise and fall and rise again, and they usuallydon't do it in a linear, neat way." Click here to read more