>>735830>seems it should be checked by more than the invisible hand of the free marketPeople don't want to hear truth, people will pay to hear only what they want to hear, and will turn away from any media that isn't what they want to hear.
Not that most of those companies actually outright lie very often - instead, they paint this paranoid, fear filled vision of the world, because the hindbrain doesn't care about what's good or bad for it, only what's exciting. We tune into what excites us, what makes us feel righteously threatened, and ignore that which does not.
If these companies were to report the whole truth, for every police shooting, you'd have a hundred stories of people being helped by the police. For every mass murder via firearms, you'd have a hundred stories of people saving themselves from being robbed or raped without firing a shot. For every COVID death, you'd have a hundred stories of people who came out fine. For every black crime, you'd have a hundred stories of blacks and whites just hanging out together and having a grand time. For every war in the world, a thousand tales of peace and cooperation.
But ain't nobody got time for that shit. Tell me of the latest gore and violence that happened today! Tell me of the hate I'm surrounded by! Tell me of the the imminent doom outside my door! Tell me that the world is out to kill me!
...so you can see how we get to be more than a little dysfunctional. People instinctively rebel against or act upon this in insane ways. They refuse to wear masks in stores. They burn down their neighborhoods. They vote for a person that represents everything they hate and call him a god. They sell their souls for a moment of fame or pleasure. They want to belong to political parties that in no way represent them, just to feel right. They escape into drug fueled fantasies, and so many combinations of other self destructive shit. As they are constantly told the world they live in, is a nightmare... So they make it one.
