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 often argued that the news the population has access to is chosen by an editor. The paragraphs below will discuss why the information shared depends on its power to attract and to catch attention, why people are accustomed to witnessing tragedies and why reading or watching reports with good endings would help to change

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scenario.

To begin

with, among news many roles, the main one is to astonish the public. It does not matter if the event speaks about a serial killer that has been attacking recently. The logical idea is to

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people’s attention and to foment a debate over the topic, creating a trending issue.

For instance

, there is a Brazilian tv program that shows assaults and murders in a specific region of the country. Despite being perturbing, the reporter films cases of

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chase and accidents which have an air of suspense and drama that hold the viewers watching.

Furthermore

, due to the negative and shocking nature of these events people has given up on their empathy and humanity to give way to curiosity. To illustrate,

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racism is a current important social problem, its daily occurrence has made individuals ask themselves what it is going to happen

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as if they were used to it. As a

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matter, posting more about amusing news would restore the faith and hope toward good information, because it would expose positive results with different outcomes, breaking the cycle. To conclude, editors mostly focus on posting events that would endure viewers concentrated, despite the chaotic and troublesome nature of what is being posted.

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recurrent distribution of problematic information causes a sense of naturalness and normality, which is not, and should be combated by posting more happy stories.