Richard David Precht and Harald Welzer on the consequences of sensational journalism
“As necessary as problem-oriented journalism is in its enlightening and informational claim, so necessary today seems its complement by a solution-oriented journalism (…). A sensationalizing journalism, on the other hand, gives the erroneous impression in concert with the permanent breaking news on the net that only catastrophic things are happening and that therefore hardly anything can be done about the impending downfall of the West and of course the entire planet.”
– Richard David Precht and Harald Welzer in their book “The Fourth Power – How Majority Opinion is Made, Even If It Is Not.”, S. Fischer Verlag, page 123
