El día de las buenas noticias | Transcripción | Radio Ambulante

even a headline can mislead a large group of people, sparking a growing need for objective ways to confirm the accuracy of the news we read.

The decline of local news has all kinds of implications. One that doesn’t get much attention is that the wider the news becomes the more likely it is to be pessimistic. Two things make that so: • Bad news gets more attention than good news because pessimism is seductive and feels more urgent than optimism. • The odds of a bad news story—a fraud, a

La factualité, c’est… reconnaître les nouvelles négatives, et nous rappeler que nous avons beaucoup plus de chance de recevoir des informations sur des événements négatifs. Quand les choses vont mieux, souvent, on n’en entend pas parler. Cela nous donne une impression systématiquement négative du monde qui nous entoure, ce qui est très stressant. P

The news constantly alerts us to bad events in the present. The doom-laden feeling that this creates in us is then intensified by our inability to remember the past; our historical knowledge is rosy and pink and we fail to remember that, one year ago, or ten years ago, or 50 years ago, there was the same number of terrible events, probably more. Th