Sensationalism and negativism in media coverage nowadays

My main issue concerning the media nowadays is the fact that mainly negative reports are published/ broadcasted. Scandal after scandal, kidnapping with rape, and so on and so forth. One example are the reports about refugees in Germany. We only get to know information about refugees as soon as they have committed a crime which evokes the impression that all refugees must be committing crimes.

The media’s problem of only willing to publish negative news has be reversed. One has to ask the question, why do they only publish negative news. This is due to the fact that the audience isn’t interested in hearing good news. Occasionally maybe but not on a day to day basis. Negative news spreads far further and creates much more uproar leading to more information on the subject. Positive news is unable to create such an uproar that news agencies dont think ist worthwile to publish them. Far more people would watch the Tagesschau after a negative event occured rather than a positive event. It is all up to the audience which continuously wants to be shocked and live in a media modelled landscape rather than in the real world.

By consuming negative media reports one would get the impression that you aren’t allowed to leave your house without being firstly kidnapped, then raped and thirdly murdered.

Who remembers Klaus Kleber opening the Tagesschau with a positive message or even talk about one positive news report. ´Sensation after Sensation followed by negativism.

Positive news are available (for example the lowest unemployment rate in Germany for several years) but no news agency is willing to tell these stories. They rather wait and are ready to pounce on the next big sensation. The reason being audiences want to be shocked and live in fear.

For example during the Munich attack this year, people were consuming as much information on the subject possible just to come to the conclusion that „this could happen anywhere, why shouldn’t it happen to me”?

The audience only gets to see what it wants to see. As soon as audiences change their media consuming habits and their expectation of news, news agencies might provide the public with a more objective reproduction of reality.