Re:The World Is Getting Better and Nobody Knows It
by Tempest1981 on Sunday October 16, 2016 @04:30PM
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And my first reaction was to find a flaw in their statistics.
I always questioned why the media reports every instance of "adults behaving badly". Is there an upside to the reader/watcher?
Excerpt: "Why do we make these false assumptions? Many of them are formed by the media, which reinforces a particular way of looking at the world – a tendency to focus on the dramatic and surprising, which is almost always bad news, like war, murder and natural disasters."
I always questioned why the media reports every instance of "adults behaving badly". Is there an upside to the reader/watcher?
Excerpt: "Why do we make these false assumptions? Many of them are formed by the media, which reinforces a particular way of looking at the world – a tendency to focus on the dramatic and surprising, which is almost always bad news, like war, murder and natural disasters."