"trusted seller"? What does that mean? What makes Amazon a "trusted seller", and why should we expect them to be different than any other seller?

Marketing and great PR buy a lot of things.

Someone got shot by police? Not newsworthy, happens all the time.

Politicians taking bribes? Not newsworthy, been happening forever.

I regret writing "not newsworthy" now. Although the point I made still stands: this is nothing new.

I still consider that attitude a bad one, because it detracts from the seriousness of the issue. When people say "this is not new" many of those who read that will go "well, I guess I shouldn't be that outraged about it" - even if they were super-outraged a minute ago. The only thing that changed is that they learned that "it's not new", which implies "they can't do anything about it anyway, so they should just settle down".

I've seen a lot of these comments post-Snowden revelations, even though they were false, and that the mass-scale on which the NSA surveillance operated was indeed new - at least a decade new, but even newer if you consider how many people knew about it until then.