Because the people who deliver the news know that the more overblown and dramatic the headline, the more alarming or contentious, the more clicks and eyeballs it will attract. I’m sure you’ve heard the expression, ‘if it bleeds—it leads.’ The news now provides a nonstop barrage of fear, despair, and distrust of other groups. And while these headlines are all irresistible to our primitive psyches, they steadily eat away at our souls, promoting divisiveness and pessimism.”
