Discounted

In other words, given that it's generally understood that news media is biased towards reporting conflict because the high emotional content and salience is likely to result in higher sales/advertising revenue, why has the general public not "priced this in" (as they say in finance) to their understanding.

The BBC recently ran a short video piece from the Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida. The description opens with "US conservatives are unsurprisingly united in their criticism of Joe Biden's foreign policy." Well, if it's so unsurprising, doesn't that mean that it isn't news?

But more to the point of this post, this constant reporting of partisan criticisms of one side or the other is one of the things that contributes to a sense that the nation is more divided than many experts believe that it genuinely is. But given that news outlets are constantly looking for conflicts to cover, I'm curious as to why the understanding that conflicts are overreported appears to be so rare.