Bad News In = Bad News Out

AUTHOR: Joshua Goodling

I was driving home last night, and listening to talk radio WSB 750. At the top of the hour, the newscaster came on and was giving the day's news. She said; "And now for today's TOP story: A father of 3 girls was arrested for molesting them."

So, then today I'm driving to work, again listening to the news radio (mainly so I can get traffic information, which is essential in Atlanta rush hour). And they give the "TOP STORY" for this morning: "Two teen girls arrested in the death of their mother".

No wonder people in the world today are so depressed, discouraged, and unhappy!! Those are the "TOP STORIES" in Atlanta news???? The top story is supposed to be something that is highly important or that everyone needs to hear! As far as I'm concerned, people don't even need to hear about that kind of stuff, or at least it should be mentioned last on the news, and be in the last section of the newspaper.

It seems all the media wants to concentrate on is bad, upsetting, depressing news. They don't hardly ever talk about the good stuff that people do, the good things that happen, the positive things.

I heard one positive story about how they successfully were able to seperate a pair of twin 4 year old girls who had been attached at the abdomen. But that was the ONLY positive story in the news.

When they keep feeding people with that kind of junk, it's no wonder people act the way they do. All they hear about is garbage, so they think; "Well, duh...I guess everyone on the world must be raping their kids and killing their parents, so it's fine if I do it."

When I first started inspiritnews.com I tried to put positive stories on the site, which is still my aim, and I was looking for positive news stories. However, I couldn't find any, so I had to just put on their what little I could find.

There has got to be a way to let the people in this world know about the good stuff that is happening, the kindness, the reaching out to others, etc.