The Media’s Real Bias Is Toward Significance
Does it all matter as much as they say it does?
7 min readJun 28, 2023
Boy, they really wanted it to be a coup, didn’t they?
When Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group, occupied the Russian city of Rostov and then moved with a column of troops toward Moscow, there was a lot of breathless coverage in the media. Rightfully so — it was an…