This infographic from Our World in Data, titled “What Americans die from vs the causes the US media reports on,” compares actual causes of death in the US in 2023 (left) with New York Times media coverage of those causes in 2023 (right). The left stacked bar shows heart disease as the leading cause at 29%, followed by cancer (27%), accidents (7.8%), stroke (7%), lower respiratory diseases (6.3%), Alzheimer’s (4.9%), diabetes (4.1%), and smaller shares for kidney failure, liver disease, suicide, COVID-19, influenza/pneumonia, drug overdose, homicide (<1%), and terrorism (<0.001%). The right stacked bar shows NYT coverage percentages normalized to 100% across selected causes: homicide dominates at 42%, followed by terrorism (18%), drug overdose (7.5%), COVID-19 (5.3%), suicide (3.8%), accidents (9.7%), cancer (4.1%), and heart disease (2.8%). The stark mismatch highlights how media coverage overrepresents rare violent causes while underrepresenting leading natural causes of death. Data sources listed are Media Cloud (2025), US CDC (2025), and Global Terrorism Index; the graphic includes a “Swipe →” prompt suggesting it is part of a carousel.