Sunday, April 5, 2009
Good News vs Bad News.
It seems today that everyone is more interested in the bad news vs the good news. It is like people like to hear bad news as its entertainment instead of realizing that it is really happening to people. After looking at CNN.com in the "Middle East" section there pops up about ten links for news stories, All of them being negative news. Maybe it is our perception as Americans on the situation or the region itself, but there has to be something good going on over there. I believe there is, its just we are so focused on the war and the conflict that we either miss, or completely ignore the good things that are happening over there. This actually doesn't mean the people of the United States are missing it, but the censorship and the corporate sponsors who say what type of news gets shown are either profiting from, or pushing certain news for their own benefit. Again the same happens when I go on nytimes.com. All bad news stories appear. This may alter the peoples perception of the Middle East because they never get to hear about whatever good things may be happening over there. Because we are at war all we want to know about is us and how we are doing over there, not how the people that live over there are doing. It seems like an obvious statement that only bad news gets air time, but many people do not really realize when they watch the news that it is mostly bad or negative stories.
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My man, I completely agree. This is why I hang out with you, you’re so smart. I really do agree and the truth is negative news is also portrayed on a national level not just for Middle Eastern news on CNN.com. In the local paper for this area, The Journal News, the local section is so negative. On a daily basis there are 1-2 full pages devoted to stories that entail murders, robbery and death. To these newspapers and the individuals that run them, negative news is the news that seems so important to write about. Then again maybe there is just more negative news than good.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you Keith, since it's for the American governement's interest to enlight their citiziens with the good things that actually happens in the Middle East.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree as well. Its amazing when you watch the news, read the NYT, any source of media...at least 60% contains negative news stories.
ReplyDeleteI agree also that most of the news is generated from from negative consequences that occurs in each country in the world but in a way I believe that it is good to hear about the other countries having problems at least we can say we have problems also but that they are not as bad as their 's.
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