WHy is the media always going for negative stories in in front page and good ones in the following pages?

Answer 1

B coz most of people like sensation. By sensation or yellow journalism, they become popular, get more advertisements & so have better income which is the main aim. Advertisers too get great popularity through them. So, a good understanding between the two is there. Advertisers impose the conditions what type of news to be highlighted & what not to be touched at all. Thus, it is a part of life of the business class with good undertandings, adjustments & cllaborations with different people of different fields.

Answer 2

A very good question. Just the other day I had the same question somewhere else, not in yahoo answers. Some of the answers here are correct but they cover just one aspect of the problem. When I think more and go beyond all these reasons, I come to this conclusion that medias are servants of some more powerful forces that don't want people happy and hopeful. Happiness and hope always lead to an independent character who is not influenced by advertisements, news on the media,etc. But when you are depressed and hopeless, thinking that the world is not a good place and there is no rescue, then you do whatever the media tell you because you are fearful and dependent.

Answer 3

Good newspapers like Times, Express, Hindu etc. do publish good or negative stories of public importance equally prominent on front page.

However, in case of news channels, they persistently show negative or bad news as breaking news.

If your proposition is true for all media, then only one need to find answer. If not, then you can only blaim the owner and editor in adopting such a policy.

Answer 4

Let's see now, who's share price would drop like a stone off a cliff? And if the general public understood how this stuff is developed, would they still eat it? I doubt it. You have to understand a little bit about genetics to get this. You have 46 chromosomes in every cell of your body, but not all of them are expressed. There is usually a dominant gene that is expressed and a recessive gene that is part of your genetic makeup, but just lies dormant. Now, when the geneticists develop a new gene splice they want it to be expressed, and there's a chance it won't. (Nature being somewhat unpredictable.) So how do they make sure the gene they want to develop is expressed? Cancer cells, or oncogenes. They attach oncogenes to the gene they want expressed so that it's characteristics are in the new organism. Maybe they should call it cancer food. That would get people buying it? No? Hmm....

Answer 5

That would be because, for some reason, it is in our nature to want to see the bad. What makes a good headline - even if it is violence etc makes a paper sell and that's what matters.

It is sad that it is this way - it's just what humans are like. I would like to see the good stories on the front of the page but they just don't sell as well

Answer 6

bad news is good news for the media company as it sells more and so they can make more profit. also the front page is there to attract attention and bad news attracts attention VERY well.

Answer 7

It's called market forces. The stuff advertised in the bad news section sells better than the stuff in the good news section.

Answer 8

Thanks to the media for highlighting these negative "stories" which in many instances ensures some positive results. Without the media focus, so many injustices would remain unexposed.

Answer 9

Because that is what grabs the reader's attention. A similar rule applies to all local TV newscasts: If it bleeds, it leads.

Answer 10

Usually negative ones tend to be ones we need to be aware, know or something that will impact us more.

That's why you see something like 'bombing kills 50 in Iraq' and not 'a boy found his pet rabbit.'