Comment by api
3 days ago
"If it bleeds it leads" has been known since near the dawn of published media.
Humans have a powerful negativity and bad-news bias. It's probably a left over adaptation. "If you mistake a bush for a lion, you're fine. If you mistake a lion for a bush, you're dead." Your paranoid negativity-biased ancestors survived.
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