
Episode 8: Negativity Bias: Why We Pay Attention to Bad News
Exponential Wisdom
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Are You Paying Attention to Negative News?
News networks are in the business, i call them drug dealers, and their drug is negative news. We as humans pay ten times more attention, on the average, to negative news than positive news. The reason why c nd n has given you depressing news is because the people who work atc and n are very, very depressed human beings right now. This means massive advertising dollars which mean they're just not attracting people's attention. If you go back 25 years when C & N had a 24 hour news monopoly of world,. You could do specials and everything else that was going up. They were adding bureaus, they were adding jobs... Be careful what you wish for! I
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