Angry News Headlines

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According to a new study by David Rozado, there has been a big increase in news headlines suggesting fear, anger, disgust, and sadness since 2000, and especially since about 2010. Journalists are pushing your buttons.

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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    Yep, mm hmm. I think the schools have indoctrinated competition among students to the point of no return. Journalist magically seem to believe they need to “out do” themselves every year. News is news, we don’t need it sugar coated with the above insinuations. Choosing what goes on the news is also a problem. What makes them think we need to hear about every murder there is. Constant harping on car jacking, catalytic converter swiping, Then there’s the ago old race thing. We’ve done away with discrimination already, yet they act like it’s still a big thing. It’s no longer hard basic news, it’s a drama. Anything to keep us from changing the channel is about it.

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