Online news consumption is driven by negative stories. People are drawn to the drama and controversy of negative news, which can be more engaging than positive stories. This can lead to a cycle of negativity, as people become more and more interested in the darker side of news.
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“If it bleeds, it leads” is older than the internet, isn’t it?
Next you’ll tell me “Water found to be 100% wetter than sand”
No it doesn’t. Fuck you!
Good news has been tried and it is not profitable.
Duhhhh. Started long before the Net was born.
We’re excited for society to collapse because most of the public are convinced that it’s the only way to rebuild.
Breaking news: water is wet!
Yeah no shit.
People wonder why I block the comments section of pretty much everything, especially news, and never read it on social media.
Well if you can find some good news to print I’ll try it.
It is hard when there is so much out there.
I wonder how much this plays into some of the negative effects of social media?
No.. DUH….
Humans love a good train wreck or bad news so we can feel better about our own lives.
There was a report on how media (especially Fox and Murdoch media) keeps people engaged to watch longer so they can sell more ads. The simplest way to keep people engaged is anger which is the most primal of all emotions and easiest to set off. Hence why they always have stories and lies to keep viewership triggered.
This is why Tucker is so popular
Great, lets upvote 100 articles about Trump/Biden to the front page.
Also reddit participation. We are all guilty of it. Let’s try to have a day when we comment by the rule: if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.
This makes me mad
It always did. We need to break up the news monopoly is it on 90% of all news media in the US.
I’ve never seen it, but the movie “Network” is a very eerily prescient piece of entertainment that talks about this very subject and it’s worth a watch.
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Stupid liberal media amplifying the woke “research” of elitist scientists to sow division among the public so they can further their socialist agenda. Tucker Carlson has a great show on this just the other night. Liberals only try to look happy so they can stab you in the back with their 5G vaccine to try and cause an abortion.
What a meta article.
No it doesn’t, I can’t believe you’d post something so wrong.
/s
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