{"id":5254,"date":"2023-04-19T00:53:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T00:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=5254"},"modified":"2023-04-19T00:53:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T00:53:22","slug":"bad-news-headlines-are-indeed-getting-more-negative-and-angrier-al-jazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/19\/bad-news-headlines-are-indeed-getting-more-negative-and-angrier-al-jazeera\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad news: Headlines are indeed getting more negative and angrier | Al Jazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One thing that I find particularly striking here is that the percentage of articles with emotionally neutral headlines has absolutely plummeted. I would argue that a neutral stance should be the default<\/em> for news articles, and news sources used to agree; it’s remarkable how rapidly that perspective has vanished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…the sentiment of mainstream news media headlines has indeed become gradually more negative since the year 2000. What this means is that headlines with negative connotations, such as \u201cBrazil Prison Riot Leaves 9 Dead\u201d, are becoming more prevalent. In contrast, headlines with positive undertones, such as \u201cA New Lens Restores Vision and Brings Relief\u201d, are becoming less frequent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, when we partitioned news media outlets according to the ideological views they are widely associated with, we found that headlines from right-leaning news media have been consistently more negative than those from their left-leaning counterparts. Post-2013, the negativity of headlines in left-leaning news media appears to increase substantially. These trends might be partially related to a sharp uptick<\/a> in news media<\/a> usage of terminology that depicts prejudice (such as racism, sexism and homophobia) and political extremism<\/a> (such as far right or far left).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we further analysed the specific emotional undertones of the headlines, we discovered that the proportion denoting anger and fear has almost doubled in frequency over this period. Headlines embedded with anger and fear such as \u201cGiving Poor Kids Free Meals at School Should Not Be Controversial. Tell That to Congressional Republicans!\u201d or \u201cIs rape epidemic in Sweden tied to influx of Muslim immigrants?\u201d are becoming more prevalent. Sadness and disgust are also increasingly reflected in headlines, albeit to a lesser extent. In contrast, the proportion of emotionally neutral headlines is decreasing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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One thing that I find particularly striking here is that the percentage of articles with emotionally neutral headlines has absolutely plummeted. I would argue that a neutral stance should be the default for news articles, and news sources used to agree; it’s remarkable how rapidly that perspective has vanished. …the sentiment of mainstream news media […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1mK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5255,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5254\/revisions\/5255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}