All The Fear That’s Fit To Print: How The Media Distort Our Perception Of Danger

“We don’t like bad news, but we need it. We need to know about it in case it’s coming our way.” — The Bad News by Margaret Atwood

Our brains are hardwired in such a way that we are naturally more receptive to negative news than positive news. According to Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the book Sapiens, we are “full of fears and anxieties over our position, which makes us doubly cruel and dangerous.”