Media: “Ditch doomscrolling to improve your mental health”
The media focuses on bad news, twisting even good news into negative spins. That’s because emotionally hooked consumers are more likely to respond to advertising messages too!
With the media, its bad news, hysterical, fear inducing news, 24 x 7. And then they wonder why people are consumed by anxiety!
A constant influx of bad news — pandemic, shootings, inflation, natural disasters, political turmoil — can feel, at best, soul-crushing. Now, a new study from Spain confirms the negative toll constantly being plugged into the news cycle can take.