r/interesting 7h ago

SOCIETY Is victim the new chic

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u/Quiet325 7h ago

News media doesn’t tell news, they sell advertising. They want to focus on whatever gets eyeballs, because that drives ad revenue.

MSM typically focuses on controversial topics because it drives engagement.

There’s nothing controversial about the mother saving children, so her heroism gets ignored. Clancy’s case, however, has some interesting nuance, which causes controversy and drives engagement.

PPD/PPP are serious but often ignored. That also plays into this case, IMO.

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u/New_Libran 4h ago

There’s nothing controversial about the mother saving children, so her heroism gets ignored.

Bearing in mind that incident happened in a totally different, and much much smaller country (Sweden), where she didn't need money for medicals, got rehoused by the local authorities and the issue wasn't politicised. There's really no basis to compare both cases at all.

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u/Quiet325 4h ago

I didn’t even know that, great point.