• We are told news stories piecemeal, frequently without the context to understand why they matter
  • Could be simple factual context
  • Could be broader narrative: eg “Western society’s attempts to create meaning without religion”
• Ideally, news stories about boring topics would be made much more interesting: compare treatment of politics in Julius Caesar to many political reports
• Most celebrity news is pointless, but the fascination with celebrity could be productively redirected into a set of genuinely worthy secular “patron saints”
• Reporting on serious crimes and similar tragedies could have a moral instruction element that is currently lacking