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		phs318u 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Americans die from vs. what the news reports ... > Reporting n more people died from heart disease every day isn't news. True. But reporting that there’s been a 50% increasing in heart disease in the 30-50yo cohort in the last 20 years probably is (or should be) notable.

akoboldfrying 3 months ago [–]

This kind of thing does tend to get reported. But that one study outcome summarising many lives becomes one article (one blip, one news cycle), while every individual homicide can get its own article.

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