> Because it is a market optimal strategy. Since consumers express strong preference for emotional headlines, it is optimal to give them that. Consumers frequen

> Because it is a market optimal strategy. Since consumers express strong preference for emotional headlines, it is optimal to give them that. Consumers frequently lie that they prefer honest headlines, but that is merely a mismatch between their true beliefs and the identity they wish to project themselves as having. It is also a fine explanation as to why countries often have all these noble rights in their constitutions, and everyday technicalities by which they are legally evaded. The people don't want these rights to exist, they want to claim they want them to exist. They want to say “Better a thousand guilty men go free, than a single innocent man be in prison!”, but what they really want is conviction upon præponderance of evidence, together with the all to common mentality of “It won't happen to me.”.