Its human nature to fixate upon the news story of the day. The news media has been very effective at teaching everyone how to do this. Every day that we turn on the news or read the papers, we contribute to this teaching and ignorance. We throw our critical thinking ability to the wind, hoping that at some point we will connect with it.
Everyone gets all up in arms about some tragic event or story and for the next week or two, that is the only thing they want to consume. Search hits and traffic on the subject increase dramatically. The news organizations do nonstop coverage on this stories and all stories like it. In fact, before long that news that everyone is hearing about has been filtered by the news story of the day.
