The Ring door- camera folks---part of Amazon---want to hire a news editor to produce crime news.
The Nieman Lab journalism site has an excellent article explaining why this is a terrible idea, and it includes a critique of the media most people use to find out what's going on:
Local media — especially local TV news — is largely to blame for those mistaken beliefs.
These mistaken beliefs are driven largely by the editorial decisions of local media — especially local TV news, which are just as bloody today as they were when murder rates were twice as high. There’s a term for it: mean world syndrome, the phenomenon where media consumption makes people see the world as more violent and dangerous than it really is. And TV has historically been the worst offender; a body of past research has shown that people who rely on local TV most for their local news are more fearful of crime; that local TV’s crime news disproportionately shows black criminals and increases racial fears; that the more local TV news you watch, the more fearful you get.
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