{"id":2491,"date":"2014-09-18T19:34:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T23:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2014-09-18T21:19:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T01:19:45","slug":"under-the-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/under-the-radar\/","title":{"rendered":"News under the radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By EMILY JOSEPH<\/p>\n<p>After analyzing the news this week, I found that the overwhelming majority of stories focused on sports (particularly the NFL domestic abuse scandal) and ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>While I personally have an interest in sports and <em>have<\/em> been keeping up with the ISIS crisis, I\u2019ve also read many other stories that I consider very important. What concerns me is that these stories are very under-the-radar and I\u2019ve seen them get pushed to the end of the news segment. That, or they don\u2019t have the amount of coverage I think they deserve.<\/p>\n<p>For example, this week President Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/us\/100000003118818\/obama-on-increased-response-to-ebola.html\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> that the U.S. will be sending troops to West Africa and investing $88 million to help fight the Ebola virus. Also, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard about the wild weather on the West Coast, but did you know\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/weather\/2014\/09\/16\/southwest-flooding-odile\/15715691\/\" target=\"_blank\">just how severe<\/a> the flooding has been? How about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2014\/09\/17\/349233845\/wildfires-destroy-homes-force-evacuations-in-calif\" target=\"_blank\">wildfires in California<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>These are just a few examples of recent headlines. Now I don\u2019t blame the journalists or reporters who cover these \u201csmaller\u201d stories because I actually think the American public is generally to blame for what makes the top headlines. The journalists are just giving the public what it wants: <strong>drama.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Americans gravitate to stories involving drama. The NFL scandal and ISIS crisis are both very pressing and important issues, but they just so happen to have a rollercoaster of events. Not one domestic abuse case but several. Not one beheading but more. These topics would make headlines regardless of the public interest <em>(because they are important!)<\/em>, but it\u2019s the every minute coverage that detracts from the other news.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe if Americans showed interest in and concern for other topics, the news headlines would follow. I don\u2019t know if this is a problem or just over-analysis, but nevertheless, the top news stories all do an oddly good job at\u00a0maintaining drama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By EMILY JOSEPH After analyzing the news this week, I found that the overwhelming majority of stories focused on sports (particularly the NFL domestic abuse scandal) and ISIS. While I personally have an interest in sports and have been keeping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/under-the-radar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[30,26,103,36],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emily-joseph","tag-journalism","tag-reporting","tag-social-issues","tag-sports-journalism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}