They don’t want to be outraged, they just feel anything that outrages them is important whereas anything that doesn’t is not. So any news that’s positive about Labor is unimportant to the audience and suppressed by the media, even if it’s true.
they just feel anything that outrages them is important
Interesting distinction. Do you have any further reading on this? I am not on any social media, thus I have no real world experience with doom/outrage scrolling, so I cannot make judgement about the plausibility of the statement.
No further reading. Naturally though people find threats more important to know about than a news article saying “everything is fine, better than you think even, you don’t need to worry”.
Though doom scrolling does help keep people’s minds numb by flipping them between cat videos and RFK Junior endlessly. This is why doom scrolling is so good at making time disappear and some people want that.
EDIT: Actually, there’s probably a contingent of Guardian readers that do want to be outraged. They want to blame someone else for their uselessness.
They don’t want to be outraged, they just feel anything that outrages them is important whereas anything that doesn’t is not. So any news that’s positive about Labor is unimportant to the audience and suppressed by the media, even if it’s true.
Interesting distinction. Do you have any further reading on this? I am not on any social media, thus I have no real world experience with doom/outrage scrolling, so I cannot make judgement about the plausibility of the statement.
No further reading. Naturally though people find threats more important to know about than a news article saying “everything is fine, better than you think even, you don’t need to worry”.
Though doom scrolling does help keep people’s minds numb by flipping them between cat videos and RFK Junior endlessly. This is why doom scrolling is so good at making time disappear and some people want that.
EDIT: Actually, there’s probably a contingent of Guardian readers that do want to be outraged. They want to blame someone else for their uselessness.