Google News Showing Las Vegas Shooting News in Entertainment Section
And It is not surprising at all.
https://news.google.com/news/headlines/section/topic/ENTERTAINMENT?ned=us
FYI Google's HI Team, Please Fix it. I don't think that is entertainment news.
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[ 0.24 ms ] story [ 7.7 ms ] threadNews, even though sounding really important, is really just entertainment. This is such a hard idea to wrap your head around sometimes. That being said I just got off of The Daily Mail / NY Times, but in a way that was just entertainment and calling it anything else would just be an illusion.
What then is news? Well first the newsworthy is in direct proportion to your ability to get involved. So local news is almost always news, followed by State, then National, the international. The internet does indeed exist and has changed news somewhat but the hierarchy above is still important.
Also news is a lot of context. So if you want to be an informed citizen reading about what’s going on now is one of the worst things you can do sometimes. Free Speech, racism, violence, the limits of power, the philosophy of law, capitalism, etc. these are tough concepts that you have to read about if you want any chance of understanding.
The “Very Short Introduction” series is one of the best ways to get started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Short_Introductions
The less I read the news and the more I read books, the happy and more informed I've felt. Neil Postman's book Amusing Ourselves to Death talks about "news without context," how the Queen of England having a cold does not in any way impact my life and there is nothing I can do about it.
In a way the news lately seems more exciting and terrible, and I definitely don't make light of it, but ultimately I can't really do anything directly to affect it other than voting and donating to causes I believe in. And so I try to do that and feel that that is enough. Humans are not capable of handling a world's worth of information.
Nassim Taleb argues in the book Fooled by Randomness that day to day, the behavior of things like the news and stock market prices are almost completely random. Only when you look at it from a monthly or yearly view do you actually see signal in the noise.