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Originally Posted by Bearcat
Well, I also don't pay any attention to the Skip Baylesses/TMZs of the world that a lot of people watch while complaining about what they're watching.
If you look at Google Trends to see if the rest of the world cares, the related searches for Ruggs are "heny ruggs dui", "tina tintor", accident, tmz henry ruggs.... if you search for Antonio Brown in the past 30 days, the only two related queries are "antonio brown injury" and "antonio brown injury update".
That said.... if the narrative was that the Skip Baylesses/TMZs of the world were dwelling on Covid things far more than Ruggs...... well, yeah. Covid things triggers far more people and produces far more clicks than something that's universally wrong.
The talking heads aren't "more outraged", that's reeruned.... they're just trolling the shit out of people for clicks, like they have since shortly after the internet was invented. There's no drama in the Ruggs story and drama is the only reason most of the sports media exists.
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Kind of embarrassing this shit has to be explained to people.
Even before the internet, news outlets weren’t necessarily in the business of covering the most pertinent items. Sure, the big things, yeah, but on an average day? Yeah, Walter Cronkite was going to cover celebrity scandal over international crisis in Somethingstan