During an appearance on ABC’s The View on Tuesday to promote his new Apple TV+ series Manhunt, a historical fictional look at the hunt for John Wilkes Booth, comedian Patton Oswalt popped the media’s doom and gloom narrative that the end times were upon us and America was at the “brink” of collapse, when we’ve been much closer in the past. He called out the obvious that it was in the best interest of “the news business” to keep people scared and “getting eyes on that screen” was their goal.
“Here’s what’s kind of reassuring about watching a show like Manhunt is that we have been way closer to the brink than we are now,” he argued. “I think that right now the way that the news portrays things, because a lot of times you are being exposed to the news business rather than the news. And the news business is about getting eyes on that…
