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One approximation is to extract sentiment from text and use sentiment indexes as proxies to study the temporal organization of news sentiment. Using a daily index of US economic news sentiment from 24 newspapers (1980\u20132025), we examine whether the response time of this sentiment process has changed. Although the average balance of positive and negative coverage has remained broadly stable, the persistence of news sentiment states has increased substantially. In dynamical terms, this implies longer residence times in optimistic or pessimistic regimes and weaker short-run correction of sentiment shocks. Complementary statistics show declining sentiment volatility, fewer reversals, and increasing bimodality, i.e. a stronger separation between positive and negative sentiment states. We also find an asymmetry between bursts of negative and positive sentiment, with negative bursts tending to last longer. 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