The news doesn’t reflect the world

With this title I’m not referring to “fake news” or political leanings (though those are important topics), but more to the fact that what you see in the news is based on what draws eyeballs, not what’s really going on.

As I’ve shared before from Darrell Huff’s excellent book How To Lie With Statistics:

It assumed that newspaper space given to crime reporting is a measure of crime rate.

I think the best example of this can be found in our causes of death. You have three completely different sets of data: