This is the metaphor that Ronald Bailey used to describe how the news industry operates in the video above. The media realized long ago that disasters sell, whereas good news doesn't, with the results that we know.
Kudos to Reason for putting out content with a positive outlook on the state of the world. In heavy times like these, a contrarian perspective that details a lot of the positive progress that happened in recent times, highlighting the fact that the world in its current state is the best it's ever been, in spite of all the doom and gloom that fear peddlers want us to gobble up.
Oh, and if you want to stay sane, avoid the news. It's liberating.