The sad feeling for a moment is enough for a click on a newspaper article though, and that's all they need to provide emotional bait for the surrounding adverts

The sad feeling for a moment is enough for a click on a newspaper article though, and that's all they need to provide emotional bait for the surrounding adverts. News outlets aren't in the business of informing. They are in the business of selling impressions. If you're not paying for those impressions, then the impression is being sold to somebody else and your sadness is the product. Get people emotional - provide product/service in surrounding adverts to relieve emotion. Rinse and repeat.