Obama Laments Coverage of Titan Submersible, But ‘News Equity’ Is an Oxymoron

Ex-president claims the press is in an ‘untenable situation.’

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President Obama on December 6, 2022 at New York City. Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images

President Obama is joining the chorus complaining about how the press spent so much more space covering the Titan submersible disaster than it did the catastrophe of the fishing boat that foundered while smuggling refugees off the coast of Greece. The former president is seeking a standard of “news equity” — a relatively recent term —  that’s impossible to meet.

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