With massive volumes of news content available in the modern world it can be easy for a person to miss an important issue when reading about current events.

This problem can be magnified when news providers focus on certain issues and provide them with great prominence to the detriment of other news items. One example of a possible missed story is the actions of Bill English while the media was focused on the Hone Harawira and Rodney Hide travel perk abuse.

For an analysis of this situation, see Graham Clark and Russell Watkins' latest blog.