4 Summer Revelations: Afghanistan TVnews Coverage = Five Minutes in 2021. An Asteroid Has .057% Chance of Hitting Earth. Big Occasion Dinners = Bad Food. 2% of People Use Stairs Instead of Escalator

The Best Paragraph I've Read: If the U.S. government was caught up short by the dramatic denouement of its 20-year war in Afghanistan, viewers of the three major networks must have been taken entirely by surprise. Out of a combined 14,000-plus minutes of the national evening news broadcast on CBS, ABC, and NBC last year, a grand total of five minutes were devoted to Afghanistan, according to Andrew Tyndall, editor of the authoritative Tyndall Report, which has monitored and coded the networks’ nightly news each weekday since 1988. Those five minutes, which covered the February 2020 Doha agreement between the United States and the Taliban, marked a 19-year low for Afghanistan coverage on the three networks’ newscasts. They compared to a high of 940 minutes the networks devoted to Afghanistan in 2001, all of it following 9/11 and the subsequent U.S. intervention, as shown below. This paragraph comes from the website Responsible Statecraft.  The article is titled: "Three major networks devoted a full five minutes to Afghanistan in 2020."  The article is written by Jim Lobe.  You can read the article here: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/08/20/three-major-networks-devoted-a-full-five-minutes-to-afghanistan-in-2020/ Zac and Don discuss the article's findings about Afghanistan news coverage.  They also discuss the war in general and how long America has continued to be involved with it. Zac and Don also talk about three other summer revelations.  Here are the links to read the articles that are discussed: Increasing probability that Bennu Asteroid could hit in the next 300 years. https://www.ign.com/articles/nasa-mission-probability-hazardous-asteroid-bennu-earth-tech Eating out for big occasions is correlated with lower food quality https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/08/eating-out-for-big-occasions-is-correlated-with-a-lower-quality-of-food.html Only 2% of people use the stairs when they are next to an escalator https://apple.news/ATvhebXYnQy229Urx76ig7A