[nemild]

This is awesome! You might really like All the News That's Fit to Sell which is a deep dive into the media economics behind why things are covered — it gives lots of color for why coverage is the way it is (there's a famous journalism saying: "If it bleeds, it leads" — which speaks to the readership/profits that come from covering vivid deaths)

If useful, I did a similar analysis, but just for the NY Times vs WHO/CDC (I manually tagged an year of articles by cause of death vs. this article's ability to see across many years):

In 2015-6, the deaths that are most covered are a tiny fraction (<1%) of the way we die: https://www.nemil.com/s/part3-horror-films.html

You can also extend the analysis to see how death coverage varies by region (those who are culturally similar to us get more coverage):

How Media Fuels our Fear of Western Terrorism: https://www.nemil.com/s/part2-terrorism.html

[owenshen24]

This is super great! Thanks for sharing!