[teejers1]

One tournament.  This is one of the things that drives me crazy. There has been an awful lot of sporting events played and safely.  But they find one instance and that gets the publicity. I say that while at the same time believing that these tournaments should not be taking place.

That’s a textbook definition of news. A tournament linked to multiple Covid cases is news. All those other tournaments not linked to Covid cases are not news. Complaining about that is like complaining about media covering the hurricane instead of all those places that had nice weather; or the earthquake instead of all those places that didn’t have a quake. 

You are objecting here to the essence of news.

Isn't it still news to say "this tournament linked to multiple Covid cases; 250 other tournaments have not been?"

Ask yourself:  what do you find objectionable about reporting on those "bigger picture" facts? 
Context matters - and not just in Covid reporting, but in all kinds of reporting.  Take a hot-button issue like abortion.  What if a media outlet said "Facility X performed 5 abortions today, and it receives federal funding."  And then just ran a similar story day after day (with different numbers of abortions/day).  [The pretty obvious agenda of such reporting would be to halt federal funding for the facility].  I think it would be fair to say that such "reporting" would be factually accurate; however, it doesn't include a lot of context (as in, what other services are provided for by the facility - procedure-wise, counseling-wise, whatever).

When you don't provide context is where you open yourselves up to agenda-reporting.  At least that's my take.

[teejers1]

One tournament.  This is one of the things that drives me crazy. There has been an awful lot of sporting events played and safely.  But they find one instance and that gets the publicity. I say that while at the same time believing that these tournaments should not be taking place.

That’s a textbook definition of news. A tournament linked to multiple Covid cases is news. All those other tournaments not linked to Covid cases are not news. Complaining about that is like complaining about media covering the hurricane instead of all those places that had nice weather; or the earthquake instead of all those places that didn’t have a quake. 

You are objecting here to the essence of news.

Isn't it still news to say "this tournament linked to multiple Covid cases; 250 other tournaments have not been?"

Ask yourself:  what do you find objectionable about reporting on those "bigger picture" facts? 
Context matters - and not just in Covid reporting, but in all kinds of reporting.  Take a hot-button issue like abortion.  What if a media outlet said "Facility X performed 5 abortions today, and it receives federal funding."  And then just ran a similar story day after day (with different numbers of abortions/day).  [The pretty obvious agenda of such reporting would be to halt federal funding for the facility].  I think it would be fair to say that such "reporting" would be factually accurate; however, it doesn't include a lot of context (as in, what other services are provided for by the facility - procedure-wise, counseling-wise, whatever).

When you don't provide context is where you open yourselves up to agenda-reporting.  At least that's my take.