News is lacking

[Jose Alverez]

Or at least it seems to me top stories & recent events just don't get the kind of coverage that the recent trillionaire gets. I'd like some follow up stats on these.

1. Cops killing blacks <--- not intended to be about race just what was in the news for months on end. Still happening or did that as a problem go away completely?

2. Southern border crossings level of crossings & deportations. And what ever happened to alligator alley?

3. Better coverage of the war with Iran. The if you do this I'll do that back & forth for months is confusing to me.

4. The intelligence community seems to be lacking. The amount of missals, the amount of fast boats that should have been easy to find somehow manage to mysteriously appear.

 

[Mary Stetler]

We have short attention spans. News reports need to catch our attention to sell.
Cops have never killed that many blacks. So it is harder to find to report on. Black on black killing is much more numerous but not politically helpful.
Trump built a wall! Cut crossings to near zero. But there have been huge tunnels found recently.
The see saw reports on Iran don't keep the interest that an actual solution would.
I think the intelligence community has done an exceptional job at limiting destruction to just what was necessary.

Or at least it seems to me top stories & recent events just don't get the kind of coverage that the recent trillionaire gets. I'd like some follow up stats on these.

1. Cops killing blacks <--- not intended to be about race just what was in the news for months on end. Still happening or did that as a problem go away completely?

2. Southern border crossings level of crossings & deportations. And what ever happened to alligator alley?

3. Better coverage of the war with Iran. The if you do this I'll do that back & forth for months is confusing to me.

4. The intelligence community seems to be lacking. The amount of missals, the amount of fast boats that should have been easy to find somehow manage to mysteriously appear.

 

[Hoot Crawford]

Alligator Alley is now officially closed. Gov DeSantis announced it a week or so ago, stating that it was always meant to be t temporary facility.

 

[Buck Bailey]

Alligator Alley is now officially closed. Gov DeSantis announced it a week or so ago, stating that it was always meant to be t temporary facility.

Alligator Alcatraz maybe ?

 

[Hoot Crawford]

Alligator Alcatraz maybe ?

I was responding to the OP, and used his terminology, but you are correct.

 

[Ken Anderson]

@Jose Alverez, you are correct. Given that we famously have 24-hour news availability today, as compared to a brief news hour, we seem to get a lot of information about things that most people wouldn't otherwise be concerned about, and very little about other things, and, as you point out, news events seem to just go away without follow-up.

Much of our news is driven by whatever the political entities behind the news organizations want us to focus on at the moment, and others are intended to distract us from things that they don't want us to focus on.