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It never says “man fuck these kids, these guys are way more important”. That’s an important distinction to make.
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This would be true if the news was old. It is not.
Which means that the odds are, to bring up
another tradgedy, you have to interrupt that person's
current concern for the massacre closer to home. And interruption implies that the thing that's just been brought up is more important.
That was a bit mangled.
You know when a person you're talking to answers their phone in a middle of the conversation? It's like that. You wouldn't mind them talking to the person on the phone if they finished talking to you first. But if they start the new conversation in the middle of the one you're already having, they're giving the phone priority i.e. they think it's more important.
EDIT: Plus, the average American citizen doesn't have the power to end Middle Eastern war crimes. They can make a decent impact on local(ish) gun control laws, with a little encouragement. So there's another reason why local news is important news - the transmission of information is more likely to have an actual impact.