From Rabble-Rousing to Rabble Snoozing

But while rabble-rousing is the most obvious exercise of press power, rabble-snoozing — the power to keep a news story dormant and out of the general public’s notice — is undoubtedly a bigger one. - Glenn Harlan Reynolds
One of the things we’ve learned over the years is that the press can rile people up about pretty much anything. 

• Not long ago, a pro-life high-schooler, Nicholas Sandmann, who had the temerity to smile uncomfortably at a leftist agitator who got in his face was tarred nationally as a racist, at least until he started suing (and recovering).
• George Floyd, a not very savory fellow who died questionably while struggling with police became a martyr..
• The “trans” fad, now winding down, also remade many institutions, which are now trying to recover...

But while rabble-rousing is the most obvious exercise of press power, rabble-snoozing — the power to keep a news story dormant and out of the general public’s notice — is undoubtedly a bigger one. 

And we see that exercised again...