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Sumner uses an analogy to prove the injustices the \”forgotten man\” faces. What is the point Sumner is trying to make by using this analogy? Can you think of a contemporary example where media attention too often focuses on extreme cases and ignores the \”real\” problems that the majority of ordinary people face?

In the speech about the “Forgotten man” Sumner compares how people react to an outbreak of yellow fever with the public’s reaction to an outbreak of consumption.  He meant the fact that  people much more suffered from consumption than from, for example, yellow fever or any similar disease, but this fact never was paid much attention to as a public question or a subject of social discussion. For the public attention the losses by great inundations were insignificant compared with the losses by runaway horses, for example, that were much more paid attention to in local newspapers. (Sumner 1992)

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This problem nevertheless is very actual nowadays too, as public attention is always much more paid to the questions of actual cases that arise. Media always pay attention to the facts and events, that are important for some certain social classes and certain people, it may be claimed that media is ruled by certain people, who control and dictate the topics and events that are important to be covered in the press. This fact actually is contrary to the social rights of people who should have equal positions to the public. But somehow the social lives of most people is hidden and silent, so if you read the press, it is impossible to know the present situation of the people and the actual situation in the society. That is, even now most people in the country are “forgotten”, aren’t they?

Let’s one more time quote Sumner: “It is plain enough that the Forgotten Man and the Forgotten Woman are the very life and substance of society. They are the ones who ought to be first and always remembered. They are always forgotten by sentimentalists, philanthropists, reformers, enthusiasts, and every description of speculator in sociology, political economy, or political science …” (Sumner 1883)