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by base698 4574 days ago
The issue is the news is usually out of context. Last week a video of a BASE jumper smashing into a cliff got a lot of airplay. The same week 100 jumpers were jumping 4 times a day without incident in the same area. There were some obvious takeaways from the incident and causes. The news always reports as har, har isn't that nuts?

They do the same with war reporting and airplane crashes. See the knockout game reports for further reports of garbage.