Column The Trap of News
Murder cases, political scandals, celebrity gossip. Turn on the TV and you feel anxious; open a news site and you feel depressed. And that negative information lingers in the back of your mind even when you're not conscious of it. Why does media keep pumping out negative information? Dissecting the structural trap of news through neuroscience, the attention economy, the press club system, and press freedom ranking data, and proposing ways to reclaim your attention.