"If it bleeds it leads" has been known since near the dawn of published media. Humans have a powerful negativity and bad-news bias. It's probably a left over a

"If it bleeds it leads" has been known since near the dawn of published media. Humans have a powerful negativity and bad-news bias. It's probably a left over adaptation. "If you mistake a bush for a lion, you're fine. If you mistake a lion for a bush, you're dead." Your paranoid negativity-biased ancestors survived.