Journalists get caught in a local maximum: the more they move toward proclaiming loudly and fervently the most common narrative, the more success they have loca

Journalists get caught in a local maximum: the more they move toward proclaiming loudly and fervently the most common narrative, the more success they have locally in the graph. But to achieve big success requires big risks outside the local curve exploring uncommon narratives. This may require a short-term loss of income/eyeballs that the professional journalist can't afford.