“Did you watch the news?” someone might say. The first report an average person encounters is bound to be a controlled narrative: the worst possible way to receive info, but most people believe it’s perfectly legitimate.

In this era where people are content to receive their information from the most mainstream, readily available news sources, fear and tragedy is what sells.

It’s difficult to separate nature from nurture and know how much of it is people being attracted to bad news, or the culture influencing people to be attracted to bad news. Either way, recently a Houston flood survivor slapped a CNN reporter in the face with this truth.

“Let me introduce you to Danielle, here. Danielle, you just arrived,” Rosa Flores, a CNN reporter said to a shaken flood survivor at the Houston Convention Center, standing alongside her young daughter.

The reporter got closer and asked her to tell the story.

Right off the bat, she nails the police for failing to help people in need:

“Some guys had called our phone and asked us where we were. We were waiting for police for, like, 36 hours and they never came. We were waiting at the home. We did the white flags and everything and nobody came. But then somebody had called the phone after we decided to leave the house and we had walked to the gas station with the kids, and then they called and picked up us. But had been there like five days with no food and no lights, and nobody came. Like, nobody came.”…

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