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While scrolling through Tumblr last night I found a Tweet by user @/BNeslob that reads "The fact that Malia Obama is trending higher for smoking weed than 200 people killed in #Egypt is one reason why the world is f***ing doomed". And I couldn't agree more. With attention spans as long as 280 characters there's little to be said about the amount people are willing to read about an evolving story. With every attack or resistance comes a media campaign, but these online movements don't always get seen because they are trumped by useless media that means next to nothing. If Malia Obama, an autonomous teenager in college decides to smoke weed people can judge all they want, but there are greater things at play in the world that require more attention. On October 10th, in the heart of London, there was Muslim march against ISIS and the rest of the world didn't see anything about it because worldwide trends don't actually hit worldwide. People don't want ...