We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.
To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.
And so there are so many good things going on all across Iraq and unfortunately that's not what the American people see on TV or they don't read a lot about it in the newspapers.
Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.
Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.
What we call 'the news' always has tried to tell a story, and it's always told the story it wanted or, put most positively, whatever story it believed needed telling.
Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.
I don't look for good-news stories or bad-news stories.