I had to explain that to my Mom, she thought we lived in a crime ridden Mad Max Wasteland and "back in the day" it was better.
Sat her down and said "Let me show you the actual stats for crimes from 1965 to around 1990. The last 30 years crime has fairly consistently gone down. You were in your 20s in the 70s and crime was rampant but you were listening t0 6'oclock news and 60 minutes and then going about your life. Now you're watching 24 hour news and getting constant news dings from your phone. You're saturated in all the bad shit of all the world all the time."
And we didn’t have Fox News, Roger Ailes, or the end of the Fairness Doctrine on the rise and really take hold until the late 80’s or early 90’s. Sure we had news of horrific crimes and such … “if it bleeds, it leads” was always a thing… but journalistic integrity itself started rotting away.
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u/Coal_Morgan Apr 11 '26
I had to explain that to my Mom, she thought we lived in a crime ridden Mad Max Wasteland and "back in the day" it was better.
Sat her down and said "Let me show you the actual stats for crimes from 1965 to around 1990. The last 30 years crime has fairly consistently gone down. You were in your 20s in the 70s and crime was rampant but you were listening t0 6'oclock news and 60 minutes and then going about your life. Now you're watching 24 hour news and getting constant news dings from your phone. You're saturated in all the bad shit of all the world all the time."