Media Scare Tactics

This - this! - is what is wrong with the media. Accuracy? Perspective? Screw that! We want readers/viewers. And how do you get that? Scare them in the reading your article or tuning in, that's how. It's not liberal bias or conservative bias. It's sensationalism bias. Are you at risk of dropping dead? Possibly. Are you at risk of dying in a car accident? More probably. There enough actual things to be worried about in this world. There's no need to pile on.