{"id":14908,"date":"2024-01-02T04:47:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T04:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=14908"},"modified":"2024-01-05T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T17:22:00","slug":"media-there-you-go-negativity-drives-online-news-consumption-pubmed-nih-gov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2024\/01\/02\/media-there-you-go-negativity-drives-online-news-consumption-pubmed-nih-gov\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: &#8220;Negativity drives online news consumption &#8211; PubMed (nih.gov)&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/36928780\/\">Negativity drives online news consumption &#8211; PubMed (nih.gov)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or, how the news morons cause anxiety and fear, day in and day out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>we found that negative words in news headlines increased consumption rates (and positive words decreased consumption rates). For a headline of average length, each additional negative word increased the click-through rate by 2.3%. Our results contribute to a better understanding of why users engage with online media.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading news is bad for your mental health. And that is by design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>News media is garbage, all the way down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Results show an increase of sentiment negativity in headlines across written news media since the year 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>he chronological analysis of headlines emotionality shows a growing proportion of headlines denoting anger, fear, disgust and sadness and a decrease in the prevalence of emotionally neutral headlines across the studied outlets over the 2000-2019 interval. The prevalence of headlines denoting anger appears to be higher, on average, in right-leaning news outlets than in left-leaning news media.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/36256658\/\">Longitudinal analysis of sentiment and emotion in news media headlines using automated labelling with Transformer language models &#8211; PubMed (nih.gov)<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Negative words in news headlines increased consumption rates (and positive words decreased consumption rates).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,39,40,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-media-propaganda","category-fake-news","category-fictional-news","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}