Finding Other News - Jack Budofsky

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     As more time passes, the more it seems that COVID-19 is the only thing going on in the world right now. At least, if you were to look at any news feed right now, it would look that way. Every single article is somehow related to the virus. But obviously thats not the only thing happening that's worthy of having an article written about, for an example, the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Obran has recently been given rule indefinatly, which the EU has done very little to stop. But that story isn't making headlines, despite it being an important event for the future of democracy in the nation.
     So is it a problem that its become more difficult to find other news? Maybe. The thing is, the coronavirus should be at the top of the news right now, because the scale of the pandemic cannot be understated. Right now, there are predictions that as many as 240,000 Americans could die from the disease. There are rarely events in news that affect so many people, so its important for everyone to understand it as much as possible. And on the other hand, the virus really is affecting everything about how society functions. It's affecting trade and every nation's economy, foreign relations, and how people interact with each other. So everything that would you would think woulf be unaffected by the virus is in one way or another. Even in the example of Hungary's democracy changing, a large part of the reason why the Prime Minister was able to due what he did was because of emergency measures taken because of COVID-19. The virus has certainly changed a lot about what the media is presenting to people, but maybe is within reason.
Front page of Google News, with nearly every article containing the word "coronavirus" in the title
Article about Hungary: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/world/europe/hungary-viktor-orban-eu.html

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  1. DanielleApril 1, 2020 at 8:28 AM

    I agree that is is almost impossible to find other news, which does show the importance of the issue, but also makes me sad.

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