Depression and anxiety triggers are ‘best practices’ in bad journalism

Depression and anxiety triggers are ‘best practices’ in bad journalism

The news is broken. In the United States, it may feel like our news cycle is designed to make people anxious and depressed. It may feel like journalism exploits our divisions and amplifies our fears more than ever. But how can we fix it? Amanda Ripley has been a journalist for over 20 years, and she’s diagnosing one of the US’ biggest problems: Our news. Ripley says that adding these 3 considerations back into the equation could save our media. …

A Few Bad Things I Think Could Happen Very Soon

Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesOne of my favorite things to do these days has been to sit and wallow in that acute mix of depression and anxiety that seems to be the dominant mood in the zeitgeist. I’ll readily admit that this isn’t a particularly healthy way to spend our descent into a full-blown authoritarian police state, but it lets me engage in one of my other favorite hobbies: wild and often baseless speculation. While there are a lot of unansw…