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97% of news is usualy a mix of something tragic ,avoidable ,sad ..ect
how entertained by all this comes down to how people deal with that on a personal level...often a sense of humour helps to blot out some of the real bad stuff othertimes you can find yourself really empathizing with what ever has happened..this thing has many variables..
people get comfortable with how they deal with things..far from pyschopathic
its probably healthier to have sense of humor or
empathizing without connecting too emotionaly
when objectifying it people
protect themselves from it by putting it all at a distance from themselves. This allows them to see the other people as things or objects that can be treated without having to consider their feelings..all well and good but imoleads people into negitive belief systems wich induce stress..sickness..etc

nearly all of us came away from our TV's on 911 shocked and bewildered
was it entertainment ?
an extreme example but it was riveting television..the 1990 gulf war..people didnt leave their TV's for days watching that..same with the recent invasion
hell.. i even remember JFK assasination stopping regular programming that day to cover that
big world events tend to get lots of airplay