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Gregg Easterbrook says in his new book, “The Progress Paradox,” that establishment journalists focus on bad news because the elites they serve benefit from fear-mongering. He tells Howard Kurtz that reporters “want their own work to be seen as important, as we all do. If you present something as scandalous or dangerous or frightening, that’s more compelling than a story about something that’s gone well.” In fact, he contends, almost everything is getting better.
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