This @MorningConsult interactive is a fun recap of 2020's often not-so-fun news. I'm taking the specific numbers with a grain of , but lots of interesting takeaways for me... THREAD BELOW (1/5) https://morningconsult.com/seen-read-heard-2020/

1) With everything that happened in 2020, more people heard "a lot" about Kobe Bryant's death than any other news this year, followed by George Floyd's killing. (Last year's #1 was Hurricane Dorian and 2018's was the Parkland shooting.) Disasters/deaths get people talking (2/5)

2) The only news GOPs heard about >20% more than Dems was Trump's SOTU address. But there were more than a dozen such events the other way, including 45 not committing to leaving office peacefully, 45's "proud boys" remarks, 45's disinfectant presser... you see the pattern (3/5)

3) Just over half of people (54%) heard "a lot" about the U.S. calling a national emergency for COVID-19, which shows to me how slow our country was at getting information out to the public about the virus's severity (4/5)

4) A sickening story that seemed woefully under-the-radar (only 16% had heard a lot about it) was the alleged forced hysterectomies of migrant women in a detention centre, so I'll share that here (5/5) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54160638