News Seldom Helps Anyone

The News is a Negative Thing

Yesterday was my test day for the news on TV. I decided I was going to watch the news numerous times during the day and see how it affected how I felt. In the morning I watched three separate news channels for fifteen minutes and every news item was a negative thing.

1. One man while playing poker in the early AM went to his truck got his shotgun and killed his longtime friend. Apparently over a bet that wasn’t paid. His response to the police was a bet is a bet.
2. My next news station talked about a small girl lost and couldn’t be found. Her father is the primary suspect. Amber alert was triggered and family members are praying for her safe return.
3. My third news station in the morning involved the fires still ragging in certain locations in California. A dozen homes were destroyed but no lives taken. It showed people walking thru the ashes of their homes and showed the anguish on their faces.

At lunchtime my news watching continued. It was a news story about Iraq and numerous lives were lost involving three separate bombings of cars.

Where's the Good News?

I was going to watch more news that day but decided not to. I have come to the conclusion news in general is bias in favor of the negative things in life. Is this what we want to hear as human beings? What about all the good stuffs that’s going on in the world? We have in part become a society that seems to gravitate to the suffering of others and that cant be a good thing for us. I’m not suggesting we stop the news watching what I’m suggesting is that there’s more good going on then bad. But apparently peddling good news isn’t a profit-making thing to do. Or maybe we’ve got ourselves in a rut and need to change the channel and find channels that make us feel good and improve the quality of our lives. Maybe if we stopped watching those stations that peddle the bad news only and then write the bad news peddlers and share are disgust and insist they give more attention to the good stuff and until they proclaim they understand and start showing more good then bad, then maybe we will start watching them again.

News Once Aday is Enought

Seems like a big battle doesn’t it. Well I believe in change and I’m starting today to make my feelings known and I’m also going to watch less news or mute the sections that come up. Also I’m going to write emails to different news locations and voice by concern about two much violence and not enough good stuff going on the air ways.

News is Like a Dark Day, I Don't Need Either One

We as a society need to shine more sun light on our family members and ourselves. Bad news has no sun value so I’m taking control and choosing what I watch.

Violence promotes violence and that's not how I want to live my life. Mountains get moved by moving one rock at a time. Maybe today is a good time for moving one rock?


Don L. Terrill

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