The news: is the world getting better or worse

The Model asks: do we need so many negative news if actually the world is better off?

As the model argues that it takes both, positive and negative news.

Interestingly there are some figures that suggest that the world is better off. What we do not know, though, is whether we could have been living in a way better world and if the world would have been as it is without negative news.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/12/good-news-in-2015/421200/#article-comments

Shown here is the reinforcing loop that describes how the demand for negative news leads to ever more supply. The demand is rooted in our biopsychological (see KNOW WHY Thinking) need to feel good - in this case by the relief that life could be so much worse looking at the terrible things that happen.

Here shown a reinforcing feedback loop that shows how good news and negative news combined can lead to action.

A balancing feedback loop that shows how change is slowed down

And here a reinforcing feedback loops that shows how negative news without news on hope and change might make things worse.