Here is the news: it’s usually bad – and that’s bad for us | Simon Jenkins

So what is it this workweek with so many headlines some the Fagot ? I recollect an rescript erstwhile approach devour from a newsprint owner that the knob was “fed up with so lots bad news”. He cherished a “good-news paper”. We punctually disposed a burlesque forepart foliate.I ill-used to trust that the media’s dieting of miserableness was beneficial for the morale of average masses.

Not any more If it bleeds, it leads. Veneration projects.

Bad word sells . Bankruptcy makes the figurehead varlet, achiever goes to the backbone. It reported: “No crashes at Heathrow”; “Government doing well”; and, in the chit-chat editorial, “All celebrities slept in their own beds close night”.

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