Yet if those same Journalists saw that same story they dismissed, suddenly trending upon social media - they would be all over it. So in many ways, social medi

Yet if those same Journalists saw that same story they dismissed, suddenly trending upon social media - they would be all over it. So in many ways, social media attention has become a sudo voting system for news items. Though equally, the news feeds into social media - so the potential for feed-back loops is not zero. However, those who do social media are perhaps not the clearest insight into the public as a whole and how much weight upon that the various news outlets use will vary.