Yes, popular media and journalism wants you afraid. It makes them more money when you're afraid, and reading/watching them to find out what to panic about next.

Yes, popular media and journalism wants you afraid. It makes them more money when you're afraid, and reading/watching them to find out what to panic about next. This is not a conspiracy. It's a feedback loop. Write a panic article, people read it and get scared, people read more panic articles to be informed about new threats. Rinse. Repeat. I hate it so very much. And one of the main things I hate is that this panicky nonsense has led the entire US into being rounded, padded, and soft for kids today. Not that they need to suffer, by any means, but they do need unstructured time away from competition, and away from the prying eyes of their parents. But because media and news has convinced everyone to be terrified of everything all the time, this is the way of it. In other news, I'm shaking my fist at a cloud in my front yard.