09-26-2003, 07:50 PM | #1 |
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Media reporting GOOD news
Eventhough I have oft brooding demeanor, here is something that
some of you less-somber types might like: http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/
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09-26-2003, 08:01 PM | #2 | |
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Afro-Elf - don't you know, good news doesn't sell. Peopla want to see suffering, stabbings, gun fights, people acting like assholes to each other. That's what people like to watch - so that's what the media shows. Just look at the reality shows if anyone wants to disagree.
It is good that someone actually put "good news from around the world" together though. It's funny how this wasn't reported - Quote:
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09-27-2003, 01:18 AM | #3 | |
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i remember watching bowling for columbine and your guys news was like murder,stabbing so on and ours was "breaking news! new speedbumps" that made me feel pretty pathetic:P. but down here we have some pretty bad news obviously cuz it sells but there is lots of good new too
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09-27-2003, 01:27 AM | #4 | ||
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09-27-2003, 04:41 PM | #5 |
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That's why crap shows like Jerry Springer still exist. (It still exists, doesn't it? )
But bad news does sell. You are right, JD. Too bad, because it gives the world the impression that the US is going to hell in a handbasket, all high school kids carry knives or guns to school, everyone is on drugs and we all commit violent crimes against one another. Sorry to break it to you all, that's really not the way it is here at all. |
09-27-2003, 05:00 PM | #6 |
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Hey, you should think yourselves lucky. For years here we had an obligatory slot in every news bulletin for some heartwarming tosh about a granny renewing her bus pass or some such pish.
Worse, they had a built-in production system for such trivial items: the Royals. We'd get a nice clip of the Duke of Edinburgh offending some tribe, or Fergie and Di sipping champers on a ski slope while the rest of us slog away at our meaningless lives in the drizzle and pay our taxes to fund their lifestyles. For some reason, this no longer happens and we only hear about the Royals when their houses burn down, they break a hip or die or get caught smoking dope or something. A much improved state of affairs. Last edited by The Gaffer : 09-27-2003 at 05:02 PM. |
09-30-2003, 07:50 AM | #7 |
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I'm only going to quote what a friend of mine told me and leave it at that.
On imitating a news anchor: "In international news, people are killing each other. In national news, prople hate Bush and are killing each other. In local news, nothing much happened, so we drove around until we hit a pedestrian." Not that I'm saying people actually do that, it's just that the news goes out of their way to find bad news so they'll sell better. I'm shutting up now.
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09-30-2003, 12:00 PM | #8 |
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Good website. Heartwarming, and all that.
Bad news sells because it's dramatic. It's not proof that people are inherently evil or anything, just that people working in the news need exciting headlines. Good news is rarely exciting: bad events often come out of nowhere, or if they're long-standing trends they can be presented as a pressing crisis. Good news is often slower, less immediate and unquantifiable (like "this number of people have not died today"), so in an age of instant news it gets pushed out. Actually I think the media, at least in the UK, does report a lot of good news (with obvious exceptions like tabloid newspapers). I find the BBC irritatingly chirpy at times
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09-30-2003, 02:00 PM | #9 |
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like the song says... "we love dirty laundry"
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