MEDIA MIS-COVERAGE
Read our archived Secret Bonus Section from 3/20/2026
MEDIA MIS-FOCUS: Why’s there so much media coverage of certain topics that may or may not turn out to be all that important — AI, Trump, book bans? And what gets missed when news outlets over-focus on pet topics? That’s the subject of an invaluable new piece in The Argument called Shoot The Messenger, which blames the problem on socioeconomic and ideological homogeneity among those of us in mediating institutions like journalism and academia.
