The Media Destruction We Brought Upon Ourselves
Seth Godin:
The thing is, the media does this to us all the time. (Actually, we’ve been doing it to ourselves, by rewarding the media for making us panic.)
It started a century ago with the Spanish American War. Disasters sell newspapers. And a moment-by-moment crisis gooses cable ratings, and horrible surprises are reliable clickbait. The media rarely seeks out people or incidents that encourage us to be calm, rational or optimistic.