News editors decide what to broadcast on television and what to print in newspapers. What factors do you think influence these decisions? Do we become used to bad news? Would it he better if more good news was reported?

It has often been said that Good news is bad news because it does not sell newspapers. A radio-station that once decided to present only good news will soon
found
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find
that it had gone out of business for lack of listeners. Bad news
on the other hand
, it's so common that in order to cope with it, we often simply ignore it. We have become immune to bad news and the newspapers,
also
radio stations are aware of
this
. While newspapers and TV stations may aim to report world events accurately, be the natural or human disasters, political events or the horrors of war, it is
also
true that their main objective is to sell newspapers and attract listeners and viewers to their stations. For
this
reason Television and radio stations attempt to reflect the flavour of their station by providing news broadcasts tailor-made to suit their listener's preferences. Programmes specialising in pop music or soap operas focus more on local news, home issues and up-to-date traffic reports. The more serious stations and newspapers like to provide so called objective news reports with editorial comment aimed at analysing the situation. If it is true,
then
, that newspapers and other media stations are tailoring their news to their readers and
viewers
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viewer
requirements, how can they possibly be reporting real world events in an honest and objective light? Many media do, in fact, report items of good
information but
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information, but
they no longer call
this
news. They refer to these as human interest stories and package them in programmes specialising,
for instance
, in consumer affairs or local issues. Good news now comes to us in the form of documentaries the fight against children's cancer or AIDS, or the latest developments in the fight to save the planet from environmental pollution.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Demographics
  • Engagement
  • Relevance
  • Urgency
  • Natural disasters
  • Political upheavals
  • Public health concerns
  • Advertising revenue
  • Sponsorship deals
  • Market competition
  • Editorial policies
  • Censorship
  • Newsworthy
  • Desensitization
  • Bad news fatigue
  • Negativity bias
  • Balanced view
  • Social media
  • Viral content
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