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Good Directions
AL Kennedy explores how we get information without an overload of negativity.
'Sadness, rage, anxiety...our media use them to hook us, withhold the good news, exhaust us with the bad', she writes.
She reflects on why 'selective news avoidance' is on the increase.
Producer: Adele Armstrong
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross
Editor: Penny Murphy
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By BBC Radio 4
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7373 ratings
AL Kennedy explores how we get information without an overload of negativity.
'Sadness, rage, anxiety...our media use them to hook us, withhold the good news, exhaust us with the bad', she writes.
She reflects on why 'selective news avoidance' is on the increase.
Producer: Adele Armstrong
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross
Editor: Penny Murphy
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