Everytime I read the newspaper or watch the news, I get depressed. 99% of it is bad news. I know that bad things happen and it is news worthy. However, there are also good things happening that apparently go unnoticed. I wonder if the media just supplies a demand of a daily dose of depression or do people just not find positive news stories interesting?
2007-05-05 17:32:57 · 7 answers · asked by Jen 1 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
No. I rarely read the news as is, but if it were always "Well this good thing happened, OH and this other good thing happened and then..." I would get sick of it really quick. The depressing stories are what keeps the news going.
(my personal opinion)
(dont bash my answer, you have a right to your own opinion)
2007-05-05 17:42:08 · answer #1 · answered by Aroinak 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The media TELL us we want to watch bad news but just because they say it doesn't make it so.
I'd love to watch TV news and see a story about a car crash and how the people survived. Or a story about a businessman who achieved great success and how he did it. Or one about how a bunch of kids decided to start a collection of school supplies for poor kids instead of going out stealing cars and snorting coke.
Young journalists follow the lead of old journalists and everybody tells the news the way it's always been done. But I'd much rather hear about how good life can turn out rather than how dangerous, cold, lonely and depressing it is "out there."
Can you imagine how the mindset of the entire population of the country and the world could be improved over time if the media just pulled its head out of its butt long enough to TRY giving us a little sugar instead of vinegar every single day of our lives?
The media is more powerful than it thinks. It should learn to control that power for the good of its viewers.
2007-05-05 22:50:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would like the news presented just as the facts. I'm more concerned about the bad things going on than the good. But I would like to be informed on all things going on. That way we would have known that so many countries offered aid to help with Hurricane Katrina relief and then we would have known that the US didn't accept it.
2007-05-05 21:37:30 · answer #3 · answered by towanda 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If there were positive things to watch, and read everytime you turn on the news or read the newspaper, then to answer your question, yes, I would read the newspaper, and watch the news! More positive and less negative!!
2007-05-05 17:46:32 · answer #4 · answered by Lannette FJ405M19907 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let me think about that for a second: Um...NO.
Why?
This *isn't* Fox News. The media does not report "rosey" news stories for the benefit of a few who don't believe in confronting reality for what it is.
The media prints the news because it does so. Not because of any political leanings, but because it just *does*.
Like I told someone yesterday who was b*tching about how it depressed him: "Don't like it? Then don't *read* it."
2007-05-06 11:02:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it were all good news, everyone would complain because nobody sees how the world "really is".
2007-05-05 17:40:20 · answer #6 · answered by Odysseus J 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Read Travel news - you'll feel better:
http://www.topix.com/travel
Hope that helps!
2007-05-06 04:03:24 · answer #7 · answered by love2travel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋