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He seems to be addressing a specific claim, that loneliness is an epidemic and trending up, which doesn't seem to be the case. Sensationalized news is deception and in that sense, not news.

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It actually seems like he's saying that the loneliness of affluent people doesn't matter because there are other problems in the world.

The way I read it, it was more about using news to cover these stories, save the feelings of celebrities for tabloids and twitter.

90% of the article is about the stats being wrong.

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