Its really bothering me that 2.1% was listed above 2.2% at the suicide covid bars.

"Joe Boomer, 85, chronic smoker and alcoholic, dies of heart attack, none of his family were surprised." is not exactly an intresting article to read lol.

Heart disease, cancer, etc are part of the plan. Both boring and too close to home. Terrorism and homicide are suitably scary, morally charged, and far enough removed from most people's lives to be mostly abstract fears.

Fear mongering and sensatislism vs educational and beneficial programming.

How we are taught to stop terrorism and homicides, give more power to police and authority figures.

How one actually stops terrorism and homicides, better educate people and provide them with higher quality social and health services. Which ironically result in more preventative care and less deaths from the treatable diseases that are underreported.

Eat this, not that.

I wonder how the comparison would look if you compared years lost per type of death?

That is, old people die of heart disease and cancer. Young people die of accidents and violence.

I'm assuming that 40 of the 42% of homicide coverage was that one CEO.

Dog bites man is not news. Man bites dog is news.

At first sight it seems to me that the coverage being positivelly correlated with how unusual a death is and the number of people dying in a single event, would explain that graph.

I bet if we dig into the details of the Accidents class we would see a pattern were uncommon kinds of accidents and/or those with a large number of deaths ("man killed by falling crane", "plane crash") get lots of coverage whilst common kinds of accidents with few victims per event ("a car crash involving a single car") get a lot less coverage.

Isn't this normal for news? The whole dog bites man, man bites dog thing?

On the left: shit happens

On the right: humans are doing stupid shit

I think the OP is trying to express that the New York times is distorting the news. Perhaps true, but humans doing stupid shit will always sell a newspaper.

It’d be neat to see some other news outlets as well. I’m sure there’s a massive difference.

It used to be terrorism all the time, have they replaced that with simple homicide now? Definently needs a new war then!

Going to Iran to defend America from terrorism again this weekend according to rumours.

Fucking great visual.

Would be interesting to see it in a stacked bar graph with actual va. represented side by side to give scale to the disproportionism.

On the one hand, I get this, what's unexpected is more interesting and newsworthy, but at the same time I do see how it creates problems. Airplane travel is much safer than cars, but people feel unsafe in planes. Part of it is because you aren't personally in control, sure, but a lot of it is definitely the availability hueristic*. Especially following things like the September 11th attacks and Malaysian Airlines planes going missing.

But a major issue with it is that it leads to us viewing things like car accidents (and heart disease and cancer) as inevitable and a mere fact of life we can't do anything about. Meanwhile whenever there is an airplane crash it's very thoroughly investigated and will likely lead to changes in regulations.

*: I may be getting the name wrong.

politics equals more views on MSM, and newspapers. homicides/terrorism is part of that, so is drugs. just like how they dont really report on climate change, or disease.

I have a really hard time with drug overdose being it's own thing. That sounds a lot like ignoring the large number of intentional overdoses that happen.

2% from suicide !?

Why is COVID (2.2%) below Suicide (2.1%) on the graph on the left? Everything else is in decending order of occurance

What gets our attention are mostly causes that we feel we have power over and that look spectacular.

And now let's see how much outside of the "homicide" and "terrorism" on the right bar are celebrities!

Yesterday I witnessed a motorcycle rear end an SUV in person. I hope the guy did not die but it looked pretty bad when it randomly happened.

It's weird how the NYT laments preventable deaths.

Where's the rest of the infographic?

1% homicide is still 3.4 million people.

Natural causes will never be news, except when a major medical breakthrough occurs. It's simply not interesting to the population.

I've had various family members die from all of the most common things in the top 2/3 of the causes of death. It sucks. But I wouldn't want there to be a story about it in the NY Times about it... because why would they do that?

They're journalists not doctors, treating heart disease and cancer isn't their jobs and it's not all that interesting to write about.

What about shootings? I don't believe that shootings doesn't make this chart for a second.