In a Media Insight Project survey of the moral values of news audiences, the value drawing the least support was "the idea that a good way to make society better is to spotlight its problems—only about 3 in 10 agree."
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Well, that's certainly interesting.
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Well, that's certainly interesting.
A few thoughts, in tension:
1. From my perspective, audiences love reading about society's problems. They consume the hell out of "problem spotlighting" from gender/race inequality to threats of anti-democratic right (MSNBC) to purported migrant dangers (FNC)
1. From my perspective, audiences love reading about society's problems. They consume the hell out of "problem spotlighting" from gender/race inequality to threats of anti-democratic right (MSNBC) to purported migrant dangers (FNC)
2. I, personally, have no idea What Americans Want, and it's very possible that the vast majority of ppl who I don't know and will never meet actually don't want so much problem-spotlighting, and they're being over-served a lot of Sad World Journalism.
3. Maybe what's really happening is that there's a revealed/stated preference split:
The news serves up a lot of "problem spotlighting," which ppl consume out of want, habit, or anxiety, but they also tell surveyors that they don't think this stuff is particularly useful
The news serves up a lot of "problem spotlighting," which ppl consume out of want, habit, or anxiety, but they also tell surveyors that they don't think this stuff is particularly useful
4. Yep. Always good to remember that, in the big picture, I and just about everybody else responding to this tweet are probably a little weird.
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