BBC Radio 4 recently did a programme on the matter which examines why the very concept of News lends itself to reporting of sudden and cataclysmic events rather than good trends:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b051r7j4
In the programme, former news editor Charlie Beckett explores whether there is an unrelenting negativity in the mainstream news agenda, preoccupied with violent crime, human accident, misfortune and disaster.
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