Concept Development

Fear-based news is what sells…

This idea came out of a clear necessity in the world. I saw a real hole in today's news. Fear-based news is what supposedly sells. News is a money making industry. Fear-based news programming has two aims. The first is to grab the viewer's attention. The second aim is to persuade the viewer that the solution for reducing the identified fear will be in the news story. to acquire good ratings in order to get advertisers, so that profits soar. 

In truth, watching the news can be a psychologically risky pursuit, which could undermine your mental and physical health.

News media needs to return to a sense of proportion, conscience, and, most important, truth-telling.

• Consider limiting your exposure to media. Give yourself a set time once or twice a day to check in on local and global happenings.

• Consider choosing print media for your information gathering rather than visual media. This can reduce the likelihood that you get exposed to emotionally laden material. Home pages on the internet can give you an overall sense of what's going on, as can headline news channels that update stories on the hour.