system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why people get so much more fascinated by bad news on tv rather than focusing on good news?
gpt
Good news is typically the absence of news - Things are working as intended. All the planes that took off landed safely, all the kids that left for school came home, the forest didn't catch fire, etc.

Bad news is typically the deviation from that, and new and novel information is more interesting. When good news is novel ("We found a cure for X disease", "Longtime sad sack team wins championship") then it gets attention.