The news-organization incentive to emphasize the negative can be…

The news-organization incentive to emphasize the negative can be defended up to a point, since negative news usually is what the public most urgently needs to know. It's one thing, though, to highlight when the bad happens-as the media should-and another to pretend that the good does not happen, as the media also do.

— from Friends, Community & Society (Relationships/Community/Society) · Progresss Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse by Gregg Esaterbrook

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