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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Mar 6

    The media have gotten gloomier over the decades (this is demonstrable) even as war, crime, and poverty have declined. This distortion has consequences | Steven Pinkerhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/17/steven-pinker-media-negative-news?CMP=share_btn_tw …

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      2. John Birkett‏ @notafreud Mar 6
        Replying to @sapinker

        The irony of this being in the guardian. 😂

        1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
      3. Alex Jay Brady‏ @AlexJayBrady Mar 6
        Replying to @notafreud @sapinker

        The mainstream print media in the UK is dominated by far right papers and their millionaire owners. The result is rampant xenophobia and Brexit.pic.twitter.com/zll1PAGKK7

        4 replies 3 retweets 3 likes
      4. John Birkett‏ @notafreud Mar 6
        Replying to @AlexJayBrady @sapinker

        😂 I mean I didn't say they weren't. Although that statistic is slightly misleading. You're not wrong, but the image is misleading.pic.twitter.com/FB6NIElKmv

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Alex Jay Brady‏ @AlexJayBrady Mar 6
        Replying to @notafreud @sapinker

        Misleading how? The colours on your diagram are reversed from mine, other than that they line up exactly. By sales, the right wing press vastly dominates the left.pic.twitter.com/cQGHuFfUZB

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Jay Irwin‏ @invisibro Mar 6
        Replying to @AlexJayBrady @notafreud @sapinker

        >only showing paper sales in the age of the internetpic.twitter.com/vsuzr7XOuR

        0 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
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      2. Peter Hodges‏ @punter05 Mar 6
        Replying to @sapinker

        Despite your assertions that everything is hunky dory, Stephen, it's hard to escape the feeling that we are one step away from Armageddon. The gap between rich and poor is the biggest it's ever been.

        4 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Christopher Marshall‏ @ChrispLMarshall Mar 6
        Replying to @punter05 @sapinker

        Christopher Marshall Retweeted HumanProgress.org

        Poverty has been rapidly falling world wide for decades:https://twitter.com/humanprogress/status/971060852211240961 …

        Christopher Marshall added,

        HumanProgress.org @HumanProgress
        Most people think poverty is rising, but it is actually decreasing. In 1981, 42.2% of humanity lived on less than $1.90 per person per day (adjusted for inflation). In 2013, that figure stood at 10.7%. That's a reduction of 75% https://buff.ly/2I4t3h7 
        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      4. Peter Hodges‏ @punter05 Mar 6
        Replying to @ChrispLMarshall @sapinker

        You don't mention multi-millionaires and billionaires. How have they increased?

        4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Steve Campbell‏ @ReformedWriter Mar 6
        Replying to @punter05 @ChrispLMarshall @sapinker

        So it's really about envy?

        0 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
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      2. John Paul Morrison‏ @hiwy61 Mar 6
        Replying to @sapinker

        So..... what? Ignore the corruption, scandals, and law breaking surrounding Trump and the WH? Put a smiley face on this kakistocracy? Hmm?

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. OppressorBot‏ @OppressorBot Mar 6
        Replying to @hiwy61 @sapinker

        The message is that we should keep things in perspective. Quit freaking out about everything all the time. Not every "scandal" is a catastrophe.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Jay Muraleedharan‏ @jaymuralee Mar 6
        Replying to @sapinker

        I think it is the media's responsibility to bring out the bad news. That is what we are expecting from it. Evolutionarily, we have had to rely on each other to constantly watch out for danger. Today, that role has been taken up by the media.

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      1. Magnus Westerstrand‏ @MagWes Mar 6
        Replying to @sapinker

        On the Environment it's the opposite though

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      2. Miss Ephesus‏ @missephesus Mar 6
        Replying to @sapinker

        when over 5000 satellite circling around the earth, owners sucking cash while organizing enemies to each other from cosmos, I think this book is old news compared to what I am going to do next. it is not medias fault when there is too much money to make it is your fault.pic.twitter.com/DQf7uqdI8Y

        3 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
      3. Miss Ephesus‏ @missephesus Mar 6
        Replying to @missephesus @sapinker

        and my fault I love the commercialspic.twitter.com/byOzu3eos5

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Miss Ephesus‏ @missephesus Mar 7
        Replying to @missephesus @sapinker

        https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6377290457566842880 … #Satellitepic.twitter.com/HkkkFb5Ill

        0 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
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      2. Spencer Baum‏ @SpencerBaum1 Mar 6
        Replying to @sapinker

        There are more responsible, truth-seeking journalists at work now than ever, but they are drowned out by the public's insatiable desire for gossip, scandal, bad news, and confirmation of biases.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Will Martin‏ @will_wtj Mar 6
        Replying to @SpencerBaum1 @sapinker

        So the fact that the profession of journalism is held now in such low regard, is the fault of the public?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Spencer Baum‏ @SpencerBaum1 Mar 6
        Replying to @will_wtj @sapinker

        Whose fault is it that the media spews so much gossip, triviality, and hate? The producers of said tripe, or the consumers of it? Of course it's both, but we tend not to focus enough on the consumer side when laying blame for what our media culture has become.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Will Martin‏ @will_wtj Mar 6
        Replying to @SpencerBaum1 @sapinker

        I think the 4th estate has a duty to behave like the pillar of democracy it is supposed to be, not abase itself The fact that it has been captured by partisan careerists is certainly not the fault of the public Gossip/distraction used to be just culture, not politics sections

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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