Archive for ‘bad news business’

Media Focus on the Negative, Ignoring New Signs of Stability

Dec 11, 2019

Today’s media tend to focus on alarming news, while ignoring or distorting encouraging indicators all around us. A recent development trumpeted in the New York Times with the headline: “Frozen in Place” reported that Americans move...

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The “News Business” Becomes the “Bad News Business”

Jan 25, 2019

Two destructive impulses distort media coverage of far too many major—and minor—events. And both of these instincts were on powerful display in the recent distortions involving a non-violent, Lincoln Memorial exchange between pro-life,...

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