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Margaret, it’s the “if it bleeds, it leads” reporting—a term first “coined by journalist Eric Pooley, in 1989, for an article he did in the New York Magazine – “Grins, Gore and Videotape. The trouble with Local TV News” (quote popped from online search), as did this interesting article:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/two-takes-depression/201106/if-it-bleeds-it-leads-understanding-fear-based-media

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