[conservatism_IS_compassion]

People are afraid to ignore bad news and are afraid to accept good news uncritically.

That implies that the easiest way to grab people's attention is with a negative headline which people will fear to ignore. The whole phenomonon of "bias in the media" pretty much boils down to the institutionalization of that skewed perspective among journalists. Hey, it works--the journalists who employ that principle survive commercially.

Which explains why journalism leaves a niche wide open for commentary which is consistently more accurate than "The News." Any commentary which is not negative and superficial--ie, not anticonservative--will almost inevitably have a better track record than herd-mentality "pure journalism." Thus, talk radio. Thus, Fox News.

[RonF]

That implies that the easiest way to grab people's attention is with a negative headline which people will fear to ignore.

And how many headlines in conservative-oriented news or commentary articles fit just this description? Generally along the lines of "The country's going to hell in a handbasket", "The liberals are betraying the country to the Communists", or things along that line. "Liberal" media hardly have a lock on negative press.

Any commentary which is not negative and superficial--ie, not anticonservative

I'm afraid that this implies a equivalency that I don't accept; i.e., that negativity and superficiality is limited only to liberals.