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Fishy is not necessarily also fake
A stock image– News from elsewhere covered by Quincy Quarry News.
The media exaggerates negative news and this distortion has negative consequences.
Whether or not the world really is getting worse, the nature of news interacts with the nature of cognition to make us think that things are only worsening.
Then again, Quincy Quarry covers the Q.
Seriously, news is about things that happen, not things that don’t happen.
War has not broken out (yet)
A Sam Morris/Guardian.com imageWe never see a journalist saying to the camera, “I’m reporting live from a country where a war has not broken out”— or a city that has not been bombed, or a school that has not been shot up.”
Additionally, some bad news ends up receiving more media attention than arguably more problematic problems.
For example, tragic airplane accidents all but invariably recent major media coverage even though traffic accidents kill all but infinitely more people every year.
Flying low and slow
In turn, such surely helps result in a number of people ending up with aerophobia whereas precious few are afraid of riding in a motor vehicle.
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Love how the media decides what we should be outraged about. This month it’s guns. Last month it was dreamers. We were told to expend all of last month’s allotment of sympathy on them – especially since the word ‘dreamers’ evokes such a fuzzy feeling. Last year it was police shootings. We weren’t supposed to be outraged back then about guns – just the police. Last year it was the people who used a gun who were responsible. This time it’s not the person who shoots a gun – it’s like a gun is a live object with a mind of its own.
Ms. Plumber: While Quincy Quarry does endeavor to defer from overly criticizing its media brethren, however often well-warranted, the Quarry does hope that you appreciate its efforts to encourage its readers to better assess the news of the day.