Article “Sadly, happy news is scarce” published in the gazette on April 5,2008, which talk about that the happy news is scarce in our community, because the media always pay attention to the bad news, such as people who murder their families, kids who walk into schools and shoot people, terrorists who are trying to kill you. The purpose for those media is that they want to increase the selling of newspapers, and the statistic of watching TV. For example, in the United States where, on average, homicide rates have been going down for decades, reporting on murder has gone up dramatically. From 19990 to 1999-a period when the FBI reported a 40 percent drop in the national homicide rate-network news coverage of murder increased by 730 percent, according to the centre for media and public affairs. Moreover, there is another example from Montreal in last month that a woman throws her six children out the fire house and prevents them from suffering the death fire. However, this event received moderate coverage in local and national news. As a result, most of media bulicished the bad news insteading of good news.
From my opinion, the bad news that put in the important place in the newspaper where the reader can find it easily can be allowed, because the bad news can improve the selling of newspaper. According to research, most of people are interested in bad news; they always discuss the bad news and share their own opinion with their friends. Also the bad news can allow people to know what happened about our world and make the preparing for that bad news, such as the bad weather and some emergences. As a result, I think that the bad news should put in some places where the reader can find it easily.
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can you change your size of words...it is hard to read..
come on!!
but it is easy to understand, right,
this is a very interesting topic, i have a same feeling as the author of this article. why we always talk sad things in our daliy life?
even i visit some of my friends' blogs, the most of writings depict the worst things in their life, oh, my god. before i was happy to visit my old friends and want to know how they are, but in here,i only can get a plenty of bad news from them. is it really bad for their life? is it really painful and suffering to be live? i don't think so, so my friends, if u can see my comment, please try to write someting really make u happy because i want to know u are good. just pass your happiness to others.
I agree with Tiffany..you should change the color of the letter...
haha ...Also, I agree with your opinion.. but I don't like bad news, it will make me sad..
ivy, you should read some bad news, beause the bad new can allow you get to know what is important about our life and love yourself more.
This is a very interesting topic. The question is would we always talk about sad events if the media didn't report on them?... Or, are we naturally predisposed for sadness? I don't think so. I really like what Fox had to say about this topic. We are born to be happy!!!
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