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Two things: I remember a post on reddit about someone who grew up in the USSR/Russia before moving to America and they laid out how tuning out from media leads

Two things: I remember a post on reddit about someone who grew up in the USSR/Russia before moving to America and they laid out how tuning out from media leads to not caring and eventually some authoritarian-style of government and how they were afraid this was slowly happening in America now. Next thing is for most of the news it is all bad and I think we need to find some kind of shift. While the news should be accurate and reported, what about news about how many lives were saved last night in the ER? Or how some local non-profit feeds and provides goods for the homeless. The 24-hour news cycle with everything being bad has really curbed are ability to have empathy with other humans from anywhere.

rzazueta 4y ago
There's an old saying in journalism - "If it bleeds, it leads." There are positive news sites out there - Upworthy being one notable example - but they don;t seem to do as well as fear based journalism. The core of the issue is money. All major news agencies are all owned by corporate interests, and they aren't in the news business for the betterment of society - they want to turn a profit. This affects every editorial decision they make, and leads to consequences like fear-based reporting and, much worse, editorial decisions that favor the interests of the corporate owners, meaning a lot of stuff about them that may be bad is either downplayed, buried, our outright not printed. This sounds conspiratorial, but it's all just the side effect of putting profit over people, which is the American way.
- Corrado 4y ago
  Yes, I've heard it said that CNN was the beginning of the end of journalism as we knew it. The drive to have 24 hours of things to say and the need to get people to watch it constantly really changed the formula. Now it's just a money making scheme and not really helpful in any meaningful way.
Corrado 4y ago
I have to say, I traveled to the UK last month and was astounded by the positive morning news. My mother and I both commented on how good it was to watch the news in the morning and not be inundated with the death and destruction that we see back in the USA.

rzazueta 4y ago

There's an old saying in journalism - "If it bleeds, it leads." There are positive news sites out there - Upworthy being one notable example - but they don;t seem to do as well as fear based journalism. The core of the issue is money. All major news agencies are all owned by corporate interests, and they aren't in the news business for the betterment of society - they want to turn a profit. This affects every editorial decision they make, and leads to consequences like fear-based reporting and, much worse, editorial decisions that favor the interests of the corporate owners, meaning a lot of stuff about them that may be bad is either downplayed, buried, our outright not printed. This sounds conspiratorial, but it's all just the side effect of putting profit over people, which is the American way.

Corrado 4y ago
Yes, I've heard it said that CNN was the beginning of the end of journalism as we knew it. The drive to have 24 hours of things to say and the need to get people to watch it constantly really changed the formula. Now it's just a money making scheme and not really helpful in any meaningful way.

Corrado 4y ago

I have to say, I traveled to the UK last month and was astounded by the positive morning news. My mother and I both commented on how good it was to watch the news in the morning and not be inundated with the death and destruction that we see back in the USA.