From hyperbole to apathy

We wonder, sometimes, why people don't care about what's going on in the world around them or why they're happy to get their information by running their finger down their phone's screen every once in a while; why they mistake scrolling for actually being informed. The media cannot deny that it is partly to blame. 

Take the weather, for example. We are living in the age of climate change and this often manifests itself in significant natural disasters, making citizens feel at risk and terrified at the idea that floods, storms and mega-fires are now part of life. Admitting this truth is one thing; the insufferably idiotic way that weather events are occasionally treated by the media is quite another. Last year's Storm Daniel is one thing and an overnight shower in Athens - of the kind we have always had, way before we had even heard of climate change - is another. But looking...