The reason that it is commercially profitable for papers to run stories that apportion instant blame is because there is a ready market for them. After all, we prefer easy stories; we all have an inbuilt bias towards simplicity over complexity. These stories are, in effect, mass-printed by-products of the narrative fallacy. In a more progressive culture, this market would be undermined. Such stories would be met with incredulity. Newspapers would have an incentive to provide deeper analysis before apportioning blame.
