Media outlets and other sources of information, like search engines and social media, are skewing perceptions about what matters. The amount of attention and space given to different regions, issues, and people forges a hierarchy of concerns. Issues covered tediously can risk desensitizing, normalizing, numbing. But overlooked news and silence numbs in malevolent and long-lasting ways, infusing populations with extremes of tolerance and deflection. Mass hunger in a world that produces an excess of food seems to me a raging nightmare, deserving of daily coverage and strike action until it ends. Yet most people are accustomed. More
