Will Smith slapping Chris Rock was front page news on the major papers for ~8 days (by my research). I think this is a good yardstick for measuring how broken modern news media is.

A capital city the size of New York facing an existential ecological collapse merits about 187 milliSlaps of coverage.

#news

scientificamerican.com/article…

Iran's Capital Has Run Out of Water, Forcing It to Move

The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are also to blame

^{Humberto Basilio (Scientific American)}