Titan Sub Tragedy: Deranged Media Coverage

Of all the recent trends in modern news media, few are as loathsome as the press taking its editorial cues from Twitter.

This trend can be seen in major media’s rush to cover entirely niche topics that appear to be of great import on social media but are of interest to only a small fraction of a small fraction. The Trump years were particularly bad in this regard, as esoteric, in-the-weeds topics were regularly given the “breaking news!” treatment merely because a dedicated clique of “resistance” tweeters obsessed over the story. (This specific phenomena served as the basis for the funniest satirical headline published in the entire Trump era.)

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Becket Adams

Becket Adams is a columnist for National Review, the Washington Examiner, and The Hill.

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Of all the recent trends in modern news media, few are as loathsome as the press taking its editorial cues from Twitter.

This trend can be seen in major media’s rush to cover entirely niche topics that appear to be of great import on social media but are of interest to only a small fraction of a small fraction. The Trump years were particularly bad in this regard, as esoteric, in-the-weeds topics were regularly given the “breaking news!” treatment merely because a dedicated clique of “resistance” tweeters obsessed over the story. (This specific phenomena served as the basis for the funniest satirical headline published in the entire Trump era.)