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This journalistic impulse to sell the world as worse than it is will not end because a single journalist caught a quick (and likely fleeting) guilty conscience.
by oldmanjay 11y ago
This journalistic impulse to sell the world as worse than it is will not end because a single journalist caught a quick (and likely fleeting) guilty conscience. It will continue until the profession recognizes that their addiction to narrative harms the entire population.
- cortesoft 11y agoNo, it will continue until it stops generating revenue. It is our appetite for this sort of journalism that feeds it; if all the journalists in the world suddenly stopped writing fear-baiting stories, then someone else would start writing those stories to fill the void. The journalists aren't the ones with the addiction; it is their readers that have the addiction.
- jessaustin 11y agoI expect that "the entire population" will recognize this before the journalists do.
- notNow 11y agoMean world syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome