Because you’re reading too much news and the intention of majority of them is not to make you informed but scared and angry. The vast majority of thing you’re scared about never end up happening.
This is exactly what I was going to say. The news economy, and the algorithm economy, both depend on grabbing attention.
If you make a news article saying everything’s a kind of okay right now, nobody’s going to read it and look at your ads or click on anything.
If you say oh my God the municipal water boards totally f***** you won’t believe what they just did, people are going to click to see what the hell happened. And then you say everything’s mostly okay, but the commissioner wore a weird tie to the meeting…
Because you’re reading too much news and the intention of majority of them is not to make you informed but scared and angry. The vast majority of thing you’re scared about never end up happening.
This is exactly what I was going to say. The news economy, and the algorithm economy, both depend on grabbing attention.
If you make a news article saying everything’s a kind of okay right now, nobody’s going to read it and look at your ads or click on anything.
If you say oh my God the municipal water boards totally f***** you won’t believe what they just did, people are going to click to see what the hell happened. And then you say everything’s mostly okay, but the commissioner wore a weird tie to the meeting…