Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
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Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.
Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.
To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.
In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.
The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.
News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.
But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.
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.
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