Keeping Ukraine in the headlines a strenuous fight of its own

With no major shifts in the battle lines or major clashes, the coverage of the war has been pushed to the back pages of newspapers and often the nightly news shows report only intermittently on this subject.
As the war drags on, the media coverage about the conflict diminishes in its actual newsworthiness. The shocking images of dead civilians and shattered Ukraine infrastructure are no longer as shocking as they were initially, writes Scott Taylor.
OTTAWA—The war in Ukraine has entered its sixth month, and, predictably, it is becoming difficult to keep this conflict in the global spotlight. In those first days following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion, there was no other story in the world press. The sense was that the...

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