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Why do people read negative news?

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"Have you heard, our neighbors split up?" "Hey, dude there was a hell of a fight on the street last night." "Fires looting all over holiday destinations." "Earthquakes splitting the core of the planet. "People dying of hunger."A Terrible car crash on the highway."  These are the most of the news you will hear once you turn on the TV  and this is the kind of talk you will have later on with your neighbors, friends, relatives. They soon take shape of News of The Day as people unconsciously wallow inside the net the news channels so cleverly and patiently knit, a net where the common folk, thus us, fall in right away like flies.  Let's imagine for a moment that there weren't any TVs, no news channels, no radios no newspapers, no computers, no social networks. No outside lead to any information whatsoever. The news is now spreading from word to mouth. Now, what would the conversation between two regular people look like,