News editors decide what to broadcast on television and what to print in newspaper. What focus do you think influence these decisions? Do we become to used to bad news, and would it be better more good news was reported?

It is widely known that the news the population have access to are chosen by an editor. The paragraphs below will discuss why the broadcasted information is chosen depending on their power to attract and hold attention, why
people
are accustomed to
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tragedies and why reporting more positive stories would help to change
this
situation.
To begin
with, the events posted online or broadcasted in tv are mainly to astonish
people
, even if it tells about a case of
serial
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killer who has recently attacked. The logical
ideia
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idea
of it is to catch
people
's attention and
forment
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foment
a discussion about it to create a trending topic.
For instance
, there is a Brazilian tv show aimed at showing cases of assaults and murders in a specific region of the country. Despite being perturbing, it shows several scenes of police chases and actual
people
reports which
also
give a certain air of suspense and drama to it, enduring viewers' impressed.
Furthermore
, due to the negative and shocking nature of these pieces of information commonly shown,
people
have given
upon
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their empathy to give way to curiosity. To illustrate, racism examples are so often reported that expecting what
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is going to happen
next
has become normal. If good news were spread with the same facility that bad ones do, the
ideia
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idea
of hope and the expectancy to hear something good would be maintained. To conclude, editors decide to broadcast events that drew
people
's attention,
specially
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involving chaotic and troublesome occasions which cause a sense of naturalness and which could be diminished if more stories with good endings were posted.
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