For almost 30 years, GNN has been busting global media’s 24-hour gloom and doom cycle with the premise that bad news doesn’t have to sell, and good news isn’t rare at all.

A case-in-point for this outlet’s publishing mission is a study recently released on Our World in Data that showed how bad news events like murder and terrorism are extraordinarily over-covered by American media.

For example, homicide receives approximately 4,300% more media coverage than its share of deaths across the American population every year.

Put differently, if every death in America was reported on, news stories on homicides would be fewer in number by a factor of 43.

According to the study the same is true for terrorism—by a staggering 18,000 percent.

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