humans being bad to humans

[mckitterick]

Okay, changing my daily routine. Turned off the noon-time NPR news show for probably the first time ever. When I feel like this, it's just a bit too much to listen to reports from Iraq - like the bomb-defuser who was targeted and blown up for being good at his job... in front of a hospital.

Why isn't there any good news? Why are humans so awful to one another? Why should we want to save the human species when it's so intent on destroying itself, rotting away its core?

Off to nap for an hour before the competition.

Chris

Comments

It's worse today cause you're sick

[nottygypsy.livejournal.com]

Humans that are good to each other don't make the news much.

Re: It's worse today cause you're sick

[adammaker.livejournal.com]

Uber-true.

Re: It's worse today cause you're sick

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Yeah, true. This is why we have friends, methinks.

[sf-reader.livejournal.com]

That show is a victim of the economy and has left than a month left to run.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I know; I heard that. That makes me sad, too.

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

Where is your icon from? I want to go there!

[chernobylred.livejournal.com]

Ditto nottygypsy's comment, above. Good news doesn't sell. That's why COPS is still on the air, but The Puppy Channel fizzled.

It doesn't mean there aren't people out there doing amazing and beautiful things for their fellow human beings. We just don't hear about them on the news. Notice I've stopped listening to NPR? Yeah.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I would have cable if they had The Puppy Channel on it.

[corwynofamber.livejournal.com]

It seems that you are thinking that it is getting worse, when in reality it has always been like this.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

That... sort of makes it worse ;-)

Just seems bad today due to the fever, I think.

[corwynofamber.livejournal.com]

hmmmmm maybe I should send you reading material on the middle ages or some of the other really cheerful times in history. That should cheer you up since the stuff now is not quite as bad as it was then... progress!

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

;-)

Good News NEVER sells or moves by itself

[adammaker.livejournal.com]

In the news tonight,
greater than 98% of the worlds population
had the sort of day they were expecting,
and ended the day being pretty satisfied
with their expectations having been being met or possibly exceeded.
-
What?!?!?
No one cares about that shit?
*SIGH*
OK,
Run the scary footage that makes our lower brains focus on the newsfeed long enough to attach an related level of importance to the proximal advertisement.

Re: Good News NEVER sells or moves by itself

[adammaker.livejournal.com]

OK, I take it back...

Good News is available by subscription here.
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/about-us.html

Re: Good News NEVER sells or moves by itself

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

That would be nice to hear.

I really, really like the idea of the Good News Network. Will check it out....

Re: Good News NEVER sells or moves by itself

[roya-spirit.livejournal.com]

See also The Positive News Network.

(motivational and inspirational quotages thrown in for free!)

[siro-gravity.livejournal.com]

i notice that a lot of people here are saying that you hear a lot of bad news because bad news sells. and that idea is one of those little truths that people just kinda know.

but since moving to portland 12 years ago, this place has changed, and the news has changed right along with it.

if i had moved to portland 2 years ago, i would be of the belief, too, that bad news sells. just sayin. i think that times are changing all over. we hear more frequently about bad things because there are more bad things to be heard about, along with the fact that the reporting of newsworthy events has become something of an instantaneous possibility.
k, nuff sed.

[margaretq.livejournal.com]

I will just nod in agreement to both points.

[siro-gravity.livejournal.com]

*nods back!*

[margaretq.livejournal.com]

So, a supervisor (I work in a newsroom) turned off noon news the other day with a defeated look – stared me down, shook his head and said “and a nation held hostage we have….”

[margaretq.livejournal.com]

We had a roundtable discussion today at a metro-coop (cannot explain right now) in which we browsed “good news” ideas. This brought up a few ideas… Its really friggin hard to report anything good around the economy/world events right now – but we are trying.
But really - since only a smidgen of what happens actually gets reported... sometimes working in news right now,,, can be a bit much day-in-and-out...