> Why have I never heard of this? My hunch is because of some combo of a) The attention economy. We're all overwhelmed. Filtering signal from noise is exhaust

> Why have I never heard of this? My hunch is because of some combo of a) The attention economy. We're all overwhelmed. Filtering signal from noise is exhausting. b) Manufacturing Consent's five filters of mass media. The economics of daily "news" determines what is covered. Yet another attention economy; and it's not clear to me that any other arrangement would be better. c) Professional courtesy. Billionaire media moguls generally aren't going to narc on their billionaire hedge fund buddies. -- Don't feel too bad about missing this outrage, or any other particular story. There's no shortage of outrageous stories. It's unending. As a news junkie, from long before doom scrolling, I binge on this stuff. It's unhealthy. Talking about it makes you sound like a lunatic to most people. Even worse, this stuff distracts you from living your best life and doing your own awesome thing. The more effective policy people I know manage to somehow compartmentalize. Fighting the good fight is their day job, left at work. Off the clock, they do normal people stuff. The activists I know that don't do the work / life balance burn out. (Like I did.) -- FWIW, outlets like Democracy Now!, Thom Hartmann, and Project Censored try to day light these memory hole stories. Justice for Sale – Part 3: Greed Breeds Corruption [2015] https://www.projectcensored.org/justice-for-sale-part-3-greed-breeds-corruption/ https://www.projectcensored.org/justice-for-sale-part-3-gree... Project Censored's Yearly Top 25 Most Censored Stories is a treasure. Allows me to binge less and periodically catch up on stuff I've missed. https://www.projectcensored.org/top-25-censored-stories-of-all-time/ https://www.projectcensored.org/top-25-censored-stories-of-a...