Sunday, May 06, 2018

Too much media focused on Trump

Last month I complained about how much attention the media devotes to Trump. Nicholas Kristof has followed up on that subject, pointing out many of the important areas that are not being reported on properly, such as:
"American life expectancy has fallen for two years in a row,
guns claim a life every 15 minutes and
the number of uninsured is rising again even as a child in the U.S. is 70 percent more likely to die before adulthood than one in other advanced nationsIn Myanmar, the government is engaging in what many believe to be a genocide against the Rohingya minority.Gaza is erupting, and there’s heightened threat of a new war in the Middle East.
The U.S. has been complicit in Saudi Arabian war crimes in Yemen.
The carnage in Syria continues.The world’s progress against malaria, which kills almost one person a minute, has stalled.A fifth of children under 5 worldwide are stunted from malnutrition.Bill Gates and others warn that one of our top risks is a pandemic for which we are ill prepared."

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