> As a result of news, we walk around with the completely wrong risk map in our heads.<p>> * Terrorism is overrated. Chronic stress is underrated<p>> * Airplane crashes are overrated. Resistance to antibiotics is underrated<p>News consumption creates channel for political actors to work through emotions.<p>If big passenger aircraft goes missing, news channels start 24/7 catastrophe porn marathon. It competes with TV-series. It's macabre but it's mostly harmless. If people consume the suffering of others for dramatic entertainment to fill their empty life it does not harm other people.<p>Except when it's terrorism. Terrorism as tactics has symbiotic relationship with the news. Terrorism works trough media and is amplifies it. Terrorist attacks are political messaging and influencing. Not so different from those Facebook ads. Making terrorism into 24/7 dramatic entertainment makes it more effective.<p>Jihadists and far-right gets free exposure and relevance from creating 'media events'. Just stabbing few people with a knife, or attacking mosque buys airtime that is worth of millions. Just reporting the facts, giving basic information and dry analysis without entertaining dramatization would reduce the effectiveness of terrorism, and reduce terrorism as a result. People would be calmer.