2006-07-09 03:05:59 · 21 answers · asked by Steven Q 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Are you looking for fiction? Such as "Things are sure swell in Iraq."
Also, people always say they want more positive news stories, but they won't read/watch it.
2006-07-09 03:09:11 · answer #1 · answered by olelefthander 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe they can not find anything really good to report when there is so much bad happening and its only going to get worse. But that might be a good idea for a new news show it could be the Good News News Show were Its All Good.
2006-07-09 03:11:52 · answer #2 · answered by jamnjims 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
News is news, good or bad. They must report what people will listen to. News stations, broadcast stations, are businesses and they have to make a profit. They won't make a profit if people don't watch their shows. If people don't want the shows, sponsors (commercials) won't air during the unpopular shows. If sponsors don't pay for ad time, the shows are canceled or, worse---when it comes to news shows---they will go to CNN or MSNBC
If you had the choice of watching a show that showed death, car crashes, blood, guts, and gore----or----The Waltons----which would most people watch?
2006-07-09 03:08:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As Mahatma Gandhi used to say a brother reliquinshing his rights over the prperty in favour of his brother has no news value and does not get published; whereas it they fight with each other over property it gets headlines.(From this he drew the conclusion the violence gets published and hence people feel that violence alone is real. Whereas non-violence is more abiding) . Even if journalists do respect Gandhijee they have to run a business and have necessarily to dish the fare most in demand..If they were to adopt the attitude of the Three Monkies of not hearing any evil, not speaking it(i.e. publishin it) and not letting the people to hear evil the net effect would only be No Reading.However as told above it does not mean evil is triumphing.
2006-07-09 03:18:33 · answer #4 · answered by Prabhakar G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a great question. Just last night we watched a commerical (I think for a investment company) in which someone would do something nice for another person. This act of kindness was viewed by someone else who in turn helped someone else out, which was viewed by someone else, etc.
This commerical had a positive impact on the four of us who watched it and we wondered what would the impact be if commericals and news would instead focus on those things instead of going negative.
I believe the media has a powerful tool to wield influence. They need to start using it for good.
2006-07-09 03:10:35 · answer #5 · answered by Dr. L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That means there are more bad news then good news. If thats the case they are just trying to find all the news they can get to report and its mostly bad or good news thats happening around the world.
2006-07-09 03:08:28 · answer #6 · answered by Pre lives on 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it really is what maximum persons of the anybody is interested in. Take what is going on in Iraq for instance. each and every thing it quite is declared is all the undesirable issues that take position which makes our perspectives of the difficulty unfavorable. My husband served in Iraq and he went on humanitarian missions from time to time and helped out the Iraqi human beings. a lot of what our squaddies are doing over there is reliable although the final human being would not hear of those issues because the documents refuses to record on it. in ordinary words those who've relatives or acquaintances over there comprehend multiple the reliable issues that are happening. the documents is all political and it is going to not in any respect replace except some miracle takes position and anybody boycotts the documents. possibly then they're going to replace their thoughts.
2016-11-01 12:13:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bad news is usually more important and occurs more often then good news. The good news is usually about sunny weather or winning a baseball game, but the bad news is stuff like people being raped or wars being fought and people dying
2006-07-09 03:09:00 · answer #8 · answered by Aloofly Goofy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alot of the time, were trying to catch the imoral & evil people. Most of the stations in America are owned by companies like GE...which are owned by the Gov.
2006-07-09 03:10:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because bad news can be sensationalized much more easily, and sensationalism gets the viewers. I don't watch the news. It's depressing.
2006-07-09 03:07:16 · answer #10 · answered by cucumberlarry1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋