I follow the news daily and it seems that over the past few years the headlines have been getting scarier and scarier. It seems like the only news is bad news or idiotic celebrity gossip, all over the world. At first I thought the fault was with US coverage of world news, so I started following the news sources from other countries and found more of the same thing. War, hatred, religious fanaticism, environment, Tom Cruise. No good news anywhere. Everything seems to be getting worse with no end in sight. At the same time, a sober look at world history will reveal that there were times much worse than this. My question is this: Are things really that bad or is it the coverage and the interpretation of the news that makes us think that the world is spinning out of control?
If you don't feel like writing an essay on this, just give me some good news. Tell me about something good that happened to you.
2006-07-28 03:43:40 · 10 answers · asked by shoelace 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
It not that more bad things are happening, is just that they are getting more news coverage. I guess people want to see the bad things that are happening to other people, so they think they aren't doing so bad themselves? If you want happy news, check out: www.happynews.com They only tell stories about happy things.
2006-07-28 03:49:50 · answer #1 · answered by Sherry 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you want to hear good news I suggest you don't look for it in the media. Good news does not produce ratings, it just doesn't cell. As for the celebrity's 9 times out of 10 you don't hear about them unless it is a scandal. I honestly feel if there was only good news we would not have any thing like the media.
As for some good news I can just tell you I am happy. I am not the kind of story you hear on the 5 o.clock news. I am a happily married Muslim women. My husband is very kind to me and we have a good life. I am a white American convert and love being a Muslim. I also moved to my husbands home(Egypt) and am not treated bad. But the only stories you here are ones like not with out my daughter, all because my story is not what people want to hear.
Will it ever change, no I don't think so. The only thing that has changes is technology, besides that people are the same. They just have guns instead of swords.
2006-07-28 04:04:01 · answer #2 · answered by Umm Ali 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I quit the job I hated, bought a farm, married a wonderfull woman, we baught a nice house close to the farm and moved out of our single wide all in just the last year and a half. Now I'm my own boss, happier than I've ever been and the only time the world news affects me is when I turn on the tv.
There have been terrible things happening in the world since the start of recorded history, we only recently had instant access to all of them at the same time.
Just live your life. Don't worry about the end of the world, It will happen when it happens.
2006-07-28 04:00:34 · answer #3 · answered by ihcase1456 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Things have been going really bad since the beginning of time, but back then vikings didnt have the means to know what was going on in the middle east. Which is no different than what is happening now, except they have guns instead of swords and spears, and the news to tell us all about it.
2006-07-28 03:49:34 · answer #4 · answered by daniel p 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We live in perilous times in a world where that's what people really want. If they didn't want it, they'd really do something to stop it. We are very near the end of the age however.
2006-07-28 03:48:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to say but yes things are this bad everywhere. Some good news......my son just turned 2 and he is just so cute. He He!
2006-07-28 03:48:54 · answer #6 · answered by Tyou 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, things are bad, but not that bad...
Bad news sells papers (and ratings), so the media promotes it...
Liberty Over Liberalism!
2006-07-28 03:47:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes the world will be toast by 2012, I am sorry.
2006-07-28 03:47:02 · answer #8 · answered by boxing_fan_4_wlad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-03 04:52:02 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just tell me why the name of tom cruise is being mentioned by you?
2006-07-28 03:48:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋