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No, it will continue until it stops generating revenue. It is our appetite for this sort of journalism that feeds it; if all the journalists in the world suddenly stopped writing fear-baiting stories, then someone else would start writing those stories to fill the void.

The journalists aren't the ones with the addiction; it is their readers that have the addiction.

I expect that "the entire population" will recognize this before the journalists do.

Mean world syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome