I suppose that negative stories are more sensational, but positive stories are so much more enlightening. Instead of the usual gloom and doom stories that are reported every day, I would like to read more about the good things that are going on, about how people show they care about others.
2006-08-23 02:34:08 · 10 answers · asked by wise one 1 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
I sure would. Too much negative stuff going on these days. A little positive would sure be nice.
2006-08-23 02:39:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Closing comments from the "Smile-TV" news anchor:
"Happy, happy, happy...the world is a wonderful place and all is well.
Good night and sleep tight!"
Sounds rather banal, doesn't it?
Look - humans are naturally curious to the strange and unusual.
There will always be a voyeur in each of us...just witness what happens along the highway, when a cop pulls someone over...most other vehicles slow down to take a look.
I really don't want news to be one-sided.
There are a lot of negative news reports, but then there are a lot of horrible events going on in the world.
All I can ask for is that the news show more than one side of the story.
Ther problem with television news is that there is such an urgent deadline that it is difficult to get all the facts in.
Plus, the writing style of television news is for short (90 seconds or less) reports.
So how much substantive information can be packed into a minute-and-a-half report?
Not much.
So, they go for the sensational to keep the audience glued to the boob tube.
Also, test markets have tried positive, nice news.
The ratings were awful.
There are organizations that do publish positive news...you just have to search for them.
2006-08-23 09:48:32 · answer #2 · answered by docscholl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we are all tired of doom and gloom. Now when brutal killings and sexual assaults are reported we don't even blink an eye. This is so sad, wish we could turn the clock back and bring some good old fashion humour back into our lives.
Nowadays we have to watch what we say in case we offend anyone. Some thing we would have shrugged off in the past with a chuckle.
I think some people are beginning to get more caring....we have had several instances where old folk have died and it has been weeks before they are discovered...this has been a bit of a wake up call. I care glad you do too.
2006-08-23 11:47:54 · answer #3 · answered by Daisie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree that more good news would be nice. I believe the media has been dragging us all around by the shorthairs for quite some time now. They decide what news is important and then they seem to sensationalize it to extreme proportions.
Remember during 911 when the President and Vice President were taken to undisclosed locations and the media was trying to demand that the public had a right to know where they were? Why would any country point out where it's leaders were during an attack on their country. It was right not to disclose their whereabouts.
Has common sense become uncommon?
2006-08-23 09:48:26 · answer #4 · answered by Lodiju 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Breakthoughs in new drugs, surgical techniques and many other good news stories do actually appear in the first few pages and make it on to TV and radio. Political agreements, peace initiatives, rescues of people in trouble and much more is reported. If you actually did a survey on this king of good news I think you would be surprised at the amount there is of it!
I suspect the good news you are thinking of is more to be found in womens magazines and periodicals. That type of good news is still to be found in the press but in the more magazine style pages.
Bad news is good news if you look at it sensibly. If you hear of bad events and see what causes them, how they escalate or improve, how people cope etc. it gives everyone a better understanding of what is happening in the world. It provokes people to stand up and be counted by forming protest groups, founding charities and joining politics to improve things.
What would you prefer - a nice good news story of someone helping build a church or water supply in an impverished country - or - a longer story about an earthquake in the same country trapping or killing hundreds? The good news story might make a few people think "how nice." and achieve very little. The quake story puts pressure on government to respond with aid, people to donate to the relevant aid agencies and charities and even to make organisations review their own disaster preparations to ensure they are the best they can be.
So my answer is that in the main what you seem to see as bad news is actually much more positive and helpfull than what you might see as good news!!
2006-08-23 09:51:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That might be nice. Maybe someone can start a network called the "Care" network and all the programming would be dedicated to positive things. This is where things like the Tsunami Relief Concert Telethon, Save the Children Infomercials, and News stories like "Hurriance Katrina Relief Efforts - One Year Later" can be aired. God knows there's a network everything else - why not?
2006-08-23 09:43:28 · answer #6 · answered by YouDon'tKnowMe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'twould be loverly, and there should be a "Good News Page", free of religious harping, politics, war, murder, etc' . Tolerance would be a good place to start.
Only one page, please, good news is nice but these are days of gloom, and we must not become complacent. We are already accepting incursions into our freedom that would have been outrageous only 10 years ago. Smile, think good thoughts..stay alert!
2006-08-23 09:59:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good luck with that! Try the 700 Club or that type of program. I think you would probably have a better chance with them.
I guess "depressing" sells.
2006-08-23 09:45:00 · answer #8 · answered by April N 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course but seriously, i just want the truth, objective reporting.
2006-08-23 12:08:22 · answer #9 · answered by Cat Commander 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, that would be nice.
2006-08-23 09:39:44 · answer #10 · answered by ironica7 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋