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They focus on bad news because it makes money, or else they'd go out of business. A local Russian paper a few years back tried to not have bad news for one day, and readership dropped by two thirds; they went back to business as usual the next day.
There's also going to be the increasing issue of, simply put, an article written by an algorithm, not a human, can give you "just the facts" quite capably, so what is the human to do that the machine can't to even keep his job?
Or, to put things in a slightly different light, why is Adam Smith more popular reading than Karl Marx? It's because Adam Smith was a better storyteller, not necessarily a better teller of out-and-out facts.
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