Today, top-trending news revolves around what Trump is doing, domestic upheaval, and conflict in the Middle East. News that happened thirty years ago is treated like an ancient history course and news that happened two years ago is forgotten entirely. In July of 2015, international news associations such as Fox, BBC World News, and MSNBC were alight with the struggles of the European Union. Greece was facing economic collapse and Germany was carrying the entire financial burden of the socialist union. *1 News coverage of this topic puttered out before the end of August and the topic grew cold. The crisis is ongoing, but it has been forgotten like last week’s fad.
The situation in Greece hasn’t been remedied. They still face economic disintegration. Yet our national tastes have bent in other directions. The Greek state has been receiving international assistance in the form of bailouts and loans for years, yet their economy continues to flounder. Since 2012, Greece’s GDP has dropped by -9.9% from 2010 when their National crisis began although international news syndicates fail to mention this fact. *2
In searching through the archives of big time news sources, few devote any coverage to Greece’s debt crisis. In Google Mentions, a Google sight that tracks trending key words, the phrase “Greece’s debt crisis” was only popular around 2010-2011 and July of 2015. Popularity of the topic dropped at the same time the news discarded it; However, Google’s chart “Interest by Region” shows that the topic still has vitality and relevance for the Greeks. Their problems have not disappeared like the public’s interest.
There are many stories from the past five years that have been tossed in the news room’s junk drawer. Their lack of attention doesn't mean that the problems vanished. Neither does it mean that the vitally involved have escaped their disasters. Greece still struggles. It is our duty to follow up on what has happened and continues to happen in our world today.
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