« And the discrepancy between what we die actually from and what we get informed of in the media is what stands out […] the largest discrepancies concern violent forms of death: suicide, homicide and terrorism. All three receive much more relative attention in Google searches and media coverage than their relative share of deaths. When it comes to the media coverage on causes of death, violent deaths account for more than two-thirds of coverage in the New York Times and The Guardian but account for less than 3 percent of the total deaths in the US. »
« terrorism is overrepresented in the news by almost a factor of 4000 »