I remember times when the big news were about some celebrity doing something dumb, some sports club doing something exciting, the oil price going up or down or

I remember times when the big news were about some celebrity doing something dumb, some sports club doing something exciting, the oil price going up or down or some proposed law being contentious. [Note: This is outside the US.] It could just be me growing older and/or the news that I'm consuming becoming more globally focused. But are you really suggesting that 20 years ago we had issues comparable to the US giving up on pandemic response, to BLM, to impending climate catastrophe and rising fascism everywhere in the world? Just that the headlines in the news always have the same font size doesn't mean that the news is always equally dramatic. This goes both ways.