Now that midterm elections have passed and all of the US is "safe" from the dreaded Ebola outbreak we can forget Africa's problems and cease reporting on this epidemic in our country. Clearly it does not impact us so we don't need to know what's going on.
Prior to the midterm elections and other American media interests the Ebola outbreak was a media frenzy. Of course it was here in the US with two citizens and then again with a Liberian native. However, did you know that now the Ebola outbreak is nearly 10 times as bad? Why is this not all over the news? Clearly we're "over" this topic and have moved on to the next interesting topic, Germany changed their school funding for immigrants, now US citizens can have a free college education abroad, that is clearly more important just like Ray Rice's issue with the NFL. However this recent article stresses how even more detrimental the outbreak has become.
Why is this no longer in the US's interests? How do you feel about this no longer being a top news story? Do you think the lack of coverage of this topic now will have an effect on the end result of the outbreak?
This is an issue with the US media. The media has a very short attention span. Since journalists and news outlets are constantly looking to boost their ratings and get their names out there, they are constantly looking for the next "big" topic. The issue with this is that once they move to that next story, they completely forget about the issues from last week.
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