Garry Median
Nov 6 · 1 min read

Thanks for your reply, although it seems a little unhinged tbh.

“Just because it was written about doesn’t mean it was being talked about” — When a story is in literally every major US newspaper & news website every day for a week, it’s just not realistic to argue that “no one’s even talking about it.” If someone remained unaware of these events, it says more about that person’s news-gathering habits than about “the American mainstream media.”

“how much were they being pushed on social media accounts of the aforementioned publications?” — You don’t have to wonder about this; you can just look at Facebook or Twitter and see! The NYT’s first tweet about Culiacan was on October 18th, and it has been retweeted 531 times.

“today 8 or 9 more people were killed by the cartel in Mexico” — This was literally the top story on the NYT this afternoon, above everything else. It’s still right there on their home page, and they have tweeted about it 4 times in the last 18 hours.

I think it’s fair to argue that people who only get their news from TV & radio are under-informed, or that these events in Mexico should get “more attention” than they have. But to say that they aren’t being noticed at all, or that the “mainstream media” are sweeping them under the rug, just doesn’t correspond to reality.

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