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"Negativity sells"
How would you know? Are you the new Reuters editorial consultant or something?
What sells is the NEWS. People want to know what's going on in the world and they want to keep up to date with the big stories. Big stories being either positive or negative.
A big story is usually controversy, and that is what sells.
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Controversy also fuels a negativity of their own. For example, the terrorism threads splattered about Off Topic. We're nice to each other in all the other threads. So why do we keep tearing out each other's thoats and flossing our teeth with the vocal cords? Anger. Anger is part of negativity. Anger is part of controversy.