June 23, 2023, 5:01 a.m. ET
From a safe American home…
Our modern media world manufactured a new social equation this last week. While the exact math is still in dispute, it goes something like this:
Five people dying @ $250,000 per joy-ride to disaster-site = five days of lead stories.
A few fringe mathematicians have expanded the equation so the above formula is socially equal to:
120 people dying @ a day of famine/starvation in South Sudan = zero coverage.
Folks, this ain’t the new math.