Like, I'm just trying to imagine if a terrorist attack happens and 25 per cent of the paper is about heart disease. Has anything new happened in the field of heart disease research? Has a new form of heart disease been discovered? Doesn't matter, it's the leading cause of death, keep writing it up!

Actually as I think about it more, I think the original post *is* wrong because they are under the mistaken impression media coverage is supposed to reflect reality as a whole. Which is a common mistake! But it actually reflects a narrow subset of new events (hence, "news"). Key is knowing that and