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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The immediacy of today’s media has upped the emotional temperature of international conflicts. They feel more intimate for a lot of people than they did even 7 or 8 years ago.
What hasn’t changed is the spotlight nature of global attention. The public struggles to engage with more than one outrage at a time. Which is why media engagement with the war in Ukraine dropped of a cliff after Oct 7. And most conflicts where thousands of civilians are being killed every year aren’t on the public radar at all. Darfur, the Yemeni Civil War, the jihad in the Sahel - may as well be happening on Mars.
One of Hamas goals in the Oct 7 attacks was to push the Israeli-Palestinian conflict back onto the front pages. Mission accomplished.
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I also find the opposite to be true. The amount of staggeringly horrible news and smartphone video content of attrocities that people see everyday have desensitized many into throwing up their hands and giving up caring about it.