In an experiment that Vignoli conducted in Italy and Norway in 2019, he showed a total of 800 couples in their 20s and 30s newspaper headlines about the economy. His aim was to explore how negative media coverage might be affecting people’s choices about when, or whether, to have a baby.
Europeans make love but not babies, says demography expert (phys.org)
As the general population has learned that thinking for one’s self is to be avoided, practicing Factfulness is hard to do. People therefore believe the yellow journalism peddled by the media. Not only are the people being taken for a ride, but the media doom and gloom will gradually result in much pain for the human race itself.
People are making decisions based on belief system and not reality, unfortunately. And their beliefs are heavily shaped by media daily doom.
