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I think that's a bit of an unfair characterization. I would replace "Want to live in fear" with "Human brains are wired to pay more attention to facts which ma

I think that's a bit of an unfair characterization. I would replace "Want to live in fear" with "Human brains are wired to pay more attention to facts which may present a danger to our safety, and modern news media exploits this to win the attention economy game." Human brains are also wired to pay more attention to anecdotal data than statistics.

guelo 4y ago
Some human brains. I live here and don't really care about crime news and I don't have a sense that things are more dangerous than usual. It's a big city, statistically bad things are going to happen all the time.