• Astrealix@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Single incidents of murder or other crimes also don’t “impact the world in significant ways” but are most certainly news. Why is this not? It affects more people.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah you’re right, actual lose of human life and a bunch of millionaires throwing a ball around are fully comparable things of equal value and concern.

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        9 months ago

        Maybe not in America with the Super Bowl but sports can do a lot more than just “a bunch of millionaires throwing a ball around”. The Ivory Coast making the World Cup caused a civil war to stop; the qualifications between El Salvador and Honduras started one. Hong Kong beating China in 1985 caused riots in Beijing; while basketball has given America someone who can do diplomacy with Kim Jong-un because the Supreme Leader of North Korea likes basketball