What the media was worried about – January 2022
I read something a couple years ago that went like this: “If you want to know how important the news is, read the headlines from two weeks ago.” I wanted to see how that rule of thumb really held up so I made a list of items the media was worried about every month for a year. I either chose the exact right or exact wrong time. It was 2020. Coronavirus went from lower case to upper case and back within the first six months of 2020 as the nation became aware of it and then adapted. World War III, President Bernie, UFOs are real, MURDER HORNETS, Davey Daytrader, Plague Squirrels, No really – UFOs are real, 17 year old hacks Twitter’s biggest accounts, fire tornados out west, vinyl music sales surpass CDs for the first time since 1986, Metal Monolith in Utah desert, Bitcoin $29,000. All these things were…
