Twenty years ago, this would have been a sentence on page 10. And for sure never in newspapers in the states about a random death in Brazil. The internet made this a thing.
“Twenty years ago, this would have been a sentence on page 10. And for sure never in newspapers in the states about a random death in Brazil. The internet made this a thing.
20 years ago this was a rare incident. Now there are multiple every year.
The editors know there is a market for clicks for these type of stories (read the comments section for who are reading these stories). 20 years ago there wasn’t. That’s why they sometimes hold off from publishing the real cause of death even when they have it and milk it for all the clicks they can get.