The problem with EVE is these news stories revolve around the meta game as much as anything that happens ingame. The game itself would actually be quite hard to do an entertaining playthrough of on video. The high profile thefts, big game events, etc are all sort of isolated to their own thing, so any one person may see absolutely no effect at all, and the nullsec powerblocs do a lot more than most people will ever get into. Its a few guys pulling the strings and making things happen a lot of times.
I'll give the Burn Jita event as an example. The lead up to this was the Mittani getting drunk and being dumb at fanfest, we've all said dumb things. His enemies ingame, and people who just don't like Goonswarm made a big deal out of it(in part) and helped get him pushed out of CSM. That made him mad, he decided to run "Burn Jita" as a way to affect the game, and goons built up a crap ton of cheap expendable ships to "suicide gank" whatever came through the main trading hub for a few days. A person ingame would only see the last effect of this, and only if they happen to be using Jita at the given time. If you wanted to see the event in a cloaked ship it's possible, but you'd just see a few space explosions, nothing seriously exciting would happen.
The whole thing has now evolved, with Hulkageddon V starting up with Goon sponsorship (paying prizes for people to go out and blow up mining vessels), and Mittani making something called OTEC, obviously a play on OPEC. They're getting involved with price fixing of a specific, very important resource only made in nullsec, which will trickle down and affect the entire game economy. While the details of how, why, and what is actually being done may be fascinating and make a good article, seeing it ingame is difficult, and at most you might see a spike in prices for certain items. The meta game is what's really intriguing, not necessarily how it plays out.
Ingame events that are cool to watch include the alliance tournament, Large fleet battles, powerblock wars that result in big capital ship fights, and PvP etc. All of these can be hard to catch and cover as someone wanting to make a video series about the game, with the exception of the once a year alliance tourney.
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