Does the news media contribute to the doom and gloom in the world partially?

You are right and not only do they put the worse possible spin on the news, sometimes they see things are getting better or worse based on who is in power. For instance, I heard that things were bad during the Bush administration and during the Clinton and now the Obama regime everything is great. Yet the unemployment is going up not down. I did hear about the temporary crash and how that when it was on, that the way the news media reported it, people would be selling stock at a loss. Luckily there was a broadcast by a financial adviser telling people not to. But of course, if one did not listen, one would tend to panic and make a bad situation worse.

I heard this one recently as a Joke- "The TV News is where they say "Good Evening" to You,then proceed to tell You why it isn't!"

You are right. It has been said that you can talk yourself into a recession but you can not talk yourself out of one. During the Bush Administration unemployment increased from 4.4% to 4.6% and the media reported that we were heading into a recession. When unemployment dropped we were told that the drop was caused by people not looking for work. Now we have 9.9% unemployment and are told that this is good because it shows that people are looking for work. The media is is pushing an agenda and not the news.

When I was 18 years old I worked in Finland as a children's nanny. That country at that time had only good news happening. I asked the oldest daughter to tell me the news and it was about important people visiting. We used to cycle to the motor way and leave our bike then go on a bus to Helsinki. Of course there was no danger that that our bikes would have been stolen. The family didn't need to lock their front door. Since then there has only been one news story from Finland the shocked the world. In my home country the news is mostly doom and gloom. I believe that the media coverage makes depressive detail that it not pleasant to watch or listen to. Especially with famous people the lower class newspapers say lies sometimes to make their sales go through the roof.

Networks have rules they have to follow by the governments of each country. The governments Love to use the FEAR factor on all of us. I have seen it to many times. Plus with the rules they have to follow there is alot of news that is NOT giving the true facts of what is. Only what the governments wants us to hear. For instance 9-11, I watched that from the beginning that it hit the news. Does anyone remember how the reporting of it changed after the first hour? There were 2 other planes in the air that were not following their original flight plans. Has there ever been a report on where those two went? NOPE, in fact they were totally dropped from the news after that first hour. No report of what happened to them, like they disappeared into nowhere land. They were being tracked on the news and then nothing. Control of our networks is real..... Do you truly believe what is reported to be honest for us? I don't and won't. To many controls on the networks for them to be able to do so. So with that, the Doom and Gloom of the news, yes it is out there. The Fear factor is out there. What happens when there is truly a problem and the need for everyone to know it? It is hard to know what is truth and what is partial truth and what is being fed to us as truth that is televised to us.

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