Asylum released these fun new pie charts today showing how depressing local news is in America. Conclusion? It's all pretty damn depressing. Their misery index separates the news into ten categories, then ranks them in order from heartbreaking (accidents) to harmless (weather and travel.) Based on how much airtime each category was given, they calculated who wins for the most depressing city. The amount of coverage dedicated to sports at the expense of other news is in itself depressing. But how did we score?
NYC ties with D.C. for 8th saddest city, with 23% of our local news time going to crime, 15% to the economy, and 5% to accidents. However, we spend a surprising 0% on corruption (Jersey territory?). And hey, their depressing highlight just happens to be coverage of the heroin pamphlets! However, we can all be thankful because our news is nowhere near as depressing as Boston's, which ranks #1, spending 40% of their time on crime and 20% on accidents. Maybe they're just sad about that 18% on sports because the RED SOX SUCK!
