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Before doomscrolling became a 21st century concern about the engineered addiction to the kind of news that induce powerful negative emotions, the โmean world syndromeโ was coined in the 20th century to describe viewersโ addiction to both fictional and journalistic accounts of violence on television, and their resulting negatively biased perception of the world.
And before that, in the 19th century, the concern of the day was the readersโ neurotic addiction to newspapers that overindexed on violence and conflicts.
โEvery newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a tissue of horrors. Wars, crimes, thefts, licentiousness, torture, crimes of princes, crimes of nations, individual crimes, an intoxicating spree of universal atrocity. And itโs this disgusting aperitif that the civilised man consumes at breakfast each morning โฆ I do not understand how a pure hand can touch a newspaper without a convulsion of disgust.โ wrote Baudelaire in 1860.
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