New news, newsworthy, and where is all of the good news?

I know that the litany of gloom and doom is depressing and scary, but in all that gloom and doom there is informtaion that people generally genuinely need. Like if there was a serial rapist or an escaped convict loose in your neighborhood or last spotted there earlier in the day. I can see that as news that is good to know. ot when news happens to someone that you know it is good that you find out so that you can get in contact with them or try to help or comfort them. There is a reason for reporti9ng all the bad news.It just seems as though there is no good news.

there is not enough passion and drama in reporting good new. The talking heads on tv seem to be intentionally dramatizing the stories that they read to give them more "life" and "character" the news already has charachter it seems to me it was the first reality show. You can't get more real than documenting and reporting peoples personal tragedies.

Hi advokatfu: i agree with you, every news channel has it's own political/economic interests but i think at the same time that it must be more than that. People that informs us have a responsability with us, the should not do their job only based on these interests. Maybe i'm very idealist, but i think that, whene a person decides to be a journalist they want to help people with their own job and not only to win their money selling news as this were anothere product. Thanks for your answer.

I think that you both may be right to a degree. However there are more positive things going on in most communities than are reported. They could give us heads up on large church events like potluck dinners and getting to know your neighbors social events. There is all kinds of news that would serve to give people more of a sense of community and fellowship rather than rehashing horror after horror to titillate and scare people.

I find that the views expressed by the news and the way that they are delivered to be sensationalist and I think that they tend to ignore all the good things going on around us all. Such as a news item that very breifly [layed out here in my local area recently. In Southern California they have create safe drop of zones for babies under 3 days old. If the mother doesn't want the baby or cannot care for the child they can drop the baby off at one of these safe zones and the state will take custody of the child, no questions asked, they don't even take the mother's name. This may sound sad to some people but in some cases if this program were not put in place I think that we would be hearing news stories about another baby being abandoned on a doorstep or another dead baby being found in a trashcan. They are promoting the program at the local high schools and such but the television news gave the program so little coverage that until some young lady last week availed herself of the program I was not even aware that the program existed. There needs to be more information and less horror stories spread by the television and print broadcasters.

A program like that sounds rather controversial. Wouldn't that give the impression on new mothers that it would be ok for them to have a child and then not having to take any responsibility or consequences of becoming pregnant if they rely on that program to get rid of their unwanted baby?

I agree, I think that the news organizations should temper the wars, death, and devestation with some positive information, community news, tell us about people who are making a difference in other peoples lives. The news used to highlight people like this before. Now I see such stories less and less. To listen to the news today you would definitely think that the world is insane, or that it is coming to an end. The television news depresses me, that's why I try to pass it by every day.

I think that most television journalists are just actors, they don't investigate or dig up most of the news, they rely on writers and teleprompters to tell them what the news is so that they can tell us. That means whatever puppetmaster is playing the strings is responsible for giving us the news that they want us to know. It is a way of controlling the masses, diverting their attention to a thousand little things and giving short shrift to the things they don't want us to think about, like the war, like when this recession is going to end, or an investigative report on who specifically caused this recession and where they can be found, and what is being done about them or their job role to make sure something like this never happens again. They would rather tell you all about the families that are losing their jobs, then their homes, who have nowhere to go than about the organizations that are taking in such families, giving them a place to stay and food to eat and helping the families to find jobs and to get back on their feet. I think the television news is in large part responsible for all of the terror that they instill in all of us with their gloom and doom.

I get most of my news right here off of my lot. I check into the stories that interest me and leave all of the rest. I gotta say, it is refreshing to take in the news at ones own pace, or not if one chooses. I hate having the news shoveled at me wholesale. The local news much like the national news, does not really change my daily life, nor do policies in Washington. They may change it in a matter of a few years, and by then I am sure that all of the information I need to know will have filtered down even to me.

The today show is one of the few programs that is about current events and tresnds and such which manages to stay upbeat and fresh. They have been on for such a long time! Kathy Lee and Hoda though don't really seem to mesh well though. They are always talking over each other and when they get excited and go off, whatch out then! They get dingy.