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At a risk of being shot down... I am not sure that the DM & co are entirely to blame here. Besides various pollsters showed over the last few years that the readers of said publications aren't the likeliest to respond to this type of poll or frankly any type of poll.
Bad news seems to be reported disproportionately by pretty much all news/media outlets and the exceptionally bad news makes the headlines because, well, precisely because it is exceptional. But the perception of the public may be skewed because these pieces of exceptional news are reported more and more - competing journalists trying hard to fill rolling 24 hrs news channels/internetz news channels part of the problem here?
Very interesting piece though.
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People are inherently pessimistic and this isn't actually the fault of the media (although the Daily Mail etc. do a pretty good job).
Citation needed: Paul Rozin and Edward Royzman showed that a negative perspective is more contagous than a positive one: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1207/S15327957PSPR0504_2
Also John Cacioppo et al showed that our attitudes are more heavily influenced by bad news than good news:
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Look at "The News" this way.
What do you connotate with the word serious?
How do news outlets want to be viewed?
Unfortunately 'bad news' has to be taken seriously and people will usually agree when something terrible is printed that it was indeed terrible.
Good news is much more subjective and people want to feel informed rather than entertained when it comes to news.
Happiness isnt taken seriously.
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This is interesting (and was on the radio this morning)
https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/perils-perception-2017
Why does it happen? Step forward The Daily Mail etc.