blame CNN.

They created the modern 24 hour news cycle, which slowly destroyed news media in general over the next 40 years.

There is not enough happening to sustain a 24 hour news cycle, so it becomes constant hammering of the slightest incidents, or crimes from 800lbs a way, or whatever it takes.

Thus creating the guise, for people not capable of critical thought, that the world is on fire and crime is rampant. . when they are seeing nothing but the same crime being reported on 200 times over 2 days, and the occasional incident from somewhere they'd never go and has no relevance on them or their local area, much less their entire state.

As with so many things, you can trace it back to Ronald Reagan.

Cronkite, Peter Jennings et al worked under a thing called 'The Fairness Doctrine.' Back when radio was first regulated, both Parties agreed that the public airwaves should remain neutral. No one person / company could own more than six radio stations [AM and FM] Any time there was an editorial, the station had to offer time for opposing views, and the stations had to broadcast news daily.

Reagan had seen how that system had taken down Nixon, and swore it would be destroyed.

That’s why corporate media is a very bad idea

I think it's more than just so you won't notice. It's more like so you take out the anger of things going up on whatever the news has fed you.

Peter Jennings was a real one.

Eh, I kinda think the problem started with cable news not social media.

Things were never the same after CNN made the news ticker permanent on 9/11/01

Yes and that guy would tell you every day that Israel is in Gaza to defend themselves etc. And you would believe it as the west has for the past 80 years.

The modern media landscape has its own problems but it is so much richer than the prior narrative led order that the likes of BBC still shovel out today.

that’s what happens when billionaires buy the news and need it to turn a profit anyway

https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/

Daily covers US politics with weekly recaps.

Still got that type of news in Germany. Except the guy in a suit is sometimes replaced by a woman in a blazer. Daily programme called "Tagesschau" is still the most watched show in german television.

It's never been that look at old news stations panic about the "crime crisis" or even late 19th century American newspapers about natives or even the "Chinese stealing" jobs.

really hard not to notice rent going up 500%

it was always like that, what is blud talking about

I, too, miss the dulcet tones of Peter Mansbridge. Man could be reporting on the worst thing ever but it was just calming to hear him. Sort of like, "yes, this is horrifying but stay calm and you'll be okay".

Some neighbors deserve my hatred, mainly the ones I had in rural areas. Luckily my current neighbors seem great, I live in a city now.