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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
Turned on the news tonight. CNN, FOX, even MSNBC was all about Tiger Woods. NPR mentioned him, but went on to things that might impact the lives of someone outside Mr. Wood's immediate family.
Why are we being led to believe that the health status of a guy who plays golf is headline level important?
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It's a big news story for one news cycle, IOW, one day. He is extremely famous and it's a slow news day. You talk like you just discovered television news...this would always have been covered. It's never changed.
The definition of news is that it is important or interesting. Sometimes both. The collpase of the Peso in 1994 was extremely important but absolutely no one in the U.S. gave a schit. It was important but not interesting. The OJ Simpson trial was extremely interesting to most people but completely unimportant to anyone's life, save the people directly connected to the case.
Understand now?
