The current geopolitical environment, including wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, faces a lack of diplomacy capable of reducing or containing tensions.

“And in all three of those cases, there's no plausible environment in the coming year where diplomacy is going to reduce those tensions, is going to end or even contain that conflict.”

Alastair Campbell argues that the world media pays insufficient attention to conflicts like those in Sudan, Myanmar, and Syria.

“the result is of course for a normal listener that you you just don't get a sense of whether things have improved or got worse so you get a snapshot”

Rory Stewart asserts that news organizations have reduced their reporting on global conflicts because they prioritize content based on audience engagement data.

“part of it is um the way in which newspaper editors in the UK now use data on how much an article is shared to decide what they want to print”