There's an old saying in journalism - "If it bleeds, it leads." There are positive news sites out there - Upworthy being one notable example - but they don;t se

There's an old saying in journalism - "If it bleeds, it leads." There are positive news sites out there - Upworthy being one notable example - but they don;t seem to do as well as fear based journalism. The core of the issue is money. All major news agencies are all owned by corporate interests, and they aren't in the news business for the betterment of society - they want to turn a profit. This affects every editorial decision they make, and leads to consequences like fear-based reporting and, much worse, editorial decisions that favor the interests of the corporate owners, meaning a lot of stuff about them that may be bad is either downplayed, buried, our outright not printed. This sounds conspiratorial, but it's all just the side effect of putting profit over people, which is the American way.