The post upthread asserted COVID and Ukraine were examples of "fear porn". You chimed in with "crying wolf" about emergencies. It's hardly whataboutism to point out that these are actual emergencies, and that media coverage of them should be expected.
That's the point of the "crying wolf" story: the boy cried wolf so many times, that when a wolf (emergency) actually appeared, the townsfolk response was not appropriate. That's the risk you run when every story is hyped up for maximum engagement.
Then you go about banning commercial news. Short of that don't expect anything to change. The risk the for profit news station runs by not hyping everything to the max is loss of profit.
In the meantime there are many things in this world that have the potential to become very dangerous, but because people notice and do something about that, said terrible event doesn't happen.
There are just active disinformation campaigns all over the place to do that. They want to overload our cognitive capacities to reason and find middle ground.
