> News organizations are businesses and bad news sells. The paper discusses this and the ft article quotes it: > particularly if one adheres to the view that

> News organizations are businesses and bad news sells. The paper discusses this and the ft article quotes it: > particularly if one adheres to the view that traditional media fulfills a watchdog/surveillance function. Although this argument could explain the average level of negativity in news reporting, it does not address its increasingly downward trend. … Fighting the media negativity bias, the local Russian newspaper City Reporter decided in 2014 to report only positive news for a day and lost two-thirds of its readers.