I’m not sure why this is considered some giant revelation.
The very first paragraph:
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. The Secret IRS Files is an ongoing reporting project.
(Among other things) "News" tends to be bad news. This is a well known fact and if you try to google up studies on news and mental health, it will likely auto-complete (or auto-suggest) a phrase for you.
Not to say it isn't a valid criticism and not to suggest it's in any way untrue, but among other things, I have had a class in journalism and I'm a writer by trade and recent years have been very hard on traditional news outlets. The competition for eyeballs is really fierce and lots of publications are struggling to survive or outright going under, much to the detriment of the quality of journalistic writing you can find today.
Writers are being paid less in real terms. They can't do the kind of research they used to do. Etc.
The very first paragraph:
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. The Secret IRS Files is an ongoing reporting project.
(Among other things) "News" tends to be bad news. This is a well known fact and if you try to google up studies on news and mental health, it will likely auto-complete (or auto-suggest) a phrase for you.
Not to say it isn't a valid criticism and not to suggest it's in any way untrue, but among other things, I have had a class in journalism and I'm a writer by trade and recent years have been very hard on traditional news outlets. The competition for eyeballs is really fierce and lots of publications are struggling to survive or outright going under, much to the detriment of the quality of journalistic writing you can find today.
Writers are being paid less in real terms. They can't do the kind of research they used to do. Etc.