The problem here is that crisis and things going wrong dominates the news, and even if all the stories are true and unbiased (Which is at least weakly the case for the mainstream media.), you will still be horribly wrong about what things matter more, or the prevalence of things going wrong.
Combine this with non-prioritization of crisis, and the doomerism bias explains itself.
Nice!
Most of the sceptic ideas look quite good to me, except for the doomerism.
These really made me chuckle:
The problem here is that crisis and things going wrong dominates the news, and even if all the stories are true and unbiased (Which is at least weakly the case for the mainstream media.), you will still be horribly wrong about what things matter more, or the prevalence of things going wrong.
Combine this with non-prioritization of crisis, and the doomerism bias explains itself.