Niklas Luhmann, The Reality of the Mass Media (1996) --I wish it were possible to get TV news to pay as much attention to what Trump does as to what Trump says. https://t.co/e55vyRszEM
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 11, 2020
Apart from reports about norm violations, there is also a preference for the extraordinary (the 'alligator in local gravel pit' sort),
which take normally expected circumstances as their point of reference and are perhaps better assigned to the entertainment sector.
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