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And thus, because profit motive drives literally everything (because it's impossible to forestall a takeover if you're broke) then all news-media trend toward maximum tolerable negativity.

That is, there is a saddlepoint for how much negativity viewers desire.

While I don't personally know what the threshold for psychological damage from exposure to this kind of media is, I would guess it's lower than the average exposure level is now.



I don't observe "maximum tolerable negativity". Could you give an example, maybe a link to a serious news website that looks this way?


https://www.cnn.com/ as of 10:47ET:

32 links to stories above the fold for my browser

3 are emotionally neutral or positive

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https://www.foxnews.com/:

6 links to stories above the fold

0 are emotionally neutral or positive

The only thing next is to just be the violence network


That doesn't support the claims about 'negativity' and especially about 'maximum tolerable'.




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