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james_marks • today at 2:34 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I have feeling that how safe you feel is correlates strongly to your media diet, and weakly to your surroundings. I'd be curious to see what studies have been done.


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CamperBob2 • today at 2:59 PM

No feeling necessary, it's well understood: https://news.darden.virginia.edu/articles/fox-news-versus-cn...

People who aren't afraid don't tend to vote Republican. Therefore, there's big money to be made selling fear.