What American's die from vs What US Media reports on...
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@infobeautiful @ourworldindata
if the death rate from murder (terrorism = murder for political purposes + all other forms of homicide/murder) ever approached the death rate from heart disease, it would mean we were in the midst of a civilization ending collapse
that doesn't mean these events don't merit a great deal of reportage, they do
everybody dies & everybody's heart eventually stops but everybody doesn't have to die to serve somebody else's political agenda
@infobeautiful @ourworldindata Gotta come up with a way to blame heart disease and cancer on brown people.
@ourworldindata it's interesting that the NYT and WP give more coverage to terrorism than Fox News.
@infobeautiful @ourworldindata Wow. Almost a perfect negative correlation. Imagine that.
@infobeautiful @ourworldindata I would love to see a similar graph of what the media thinks women die of (90% breast cancer, it seems) vs what women actually die of, which I'm pretty sure is heart disease, and probably similar rate to the chart shown here.
@infobeautiful @ourworldindata
They almost got the accident rate right. 🤏
@infobeautiful @ourworldindata So what the infographic tells me is that we need to increase funding for the U.S. dept of homeland sec., so they can wage a War against Heart disease and another War against Cancer right? That will fix things, right?
Kidding of course! 😃
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So What American's die from is ... US media disinformation campaigns, making them focus on the wrong priorities.
@infobeautiful @ourworldindata Probably not much different elsewhere.
