Random observation:
The narrative structure of news is beginning-middle-interruption. The great issues are only followed until something new comes to grab focus. And then we usually don’t go back.
And because we’re accustomed to that, we unconsciously expect it.
The narrative structure of news is beginning-middle-interruption. The great issues are only followed until something new comes to grab focus. And then we usually don’t go back.
And because we’re accustomed to that, we unconsciously expect it.
The Covid-19 pandemic was a huge news story, and it was interrupted by the murder of George Floyd by a representative of the state and the protests against police violence that followed.
And we have been conditioned to expect that. Covid-19 isn’t the story anymore.
And we have been conditioned to expect that. Covid-19 isn’t the story anymore.
This is how it always goes. Except the virus isn’t like that. It has gone on infecting and killing people just like before. Our cultural narrative is that it should be over, but the virus is unaware of how we tell stories. It doesn’t care.
Wether we put it on the news or not, we’re in a pandemic that will kill between 1 and 2 million US citizens in the next year.
I’m interested to see how its re-emergence into the news despite being “old news” changes things.
#MaskItOrCasket
I’m interested to see how its re-emergence into the news despite being “old news” changes things.
#MaskItOrCasket
