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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 9573127" data-attributes="member: 710">It kinda feels like a cheat code to the human brain. It doesn't matter how smart you are (or think you are). You see such headlines, and they do something to you. Even if you get cynical and ridicule the emotionally manipulative headlines, they are already doing something to you. Since they dominate the media, youstart avoiding news all together because you believe it's all naughty word or at least manipulative, and so you are guided towards ignorance of the truth. Maybe that's better than denial of facts and listening to lies, but that doesn't make it good or productive. Maybe you can halt becoming cynical, but it gets harder and harder to get actually news that are trustworthy and not just manipulative because you certainly can't tell from the headlines, but if the media source in question wants to survive in this world, they need to use them.And solving the problem is hard. We can't just change how human minds work. And the way public opinion forms on how to deal with that is shaped by social media and news outlet that are part of the problem that needs to be fixed.</blockquote>