So I've been watching news on television and reading it in the newspapers to search for something -- anything to spice up the blogs I write for Team Gaia. In this journey, I have noticed a trend... if no news is good news, that means the news is always bad. Right?
Do you get my logic here?
On a typical news day, everything is always "Man Holds Up Walgreens," "Intoxicated Teen Wraps Car Around Tree," and the more tragic, "Parent Kills Infant Son."
WHAT IS THAT!? It's terrible, sad and after a while, it numbs a community to just brush off these tragedies like dandruff from a shoulder.
I actually was on the news in 2002 because we bought a rental mattress that was infested with bedbugs -- and the news story focused not on the family striving together to survive, it was about all the gross and terrible rashes me and my brothers and sisters were getting from these bugs. If our family photo wasn't in there, you wouldn't have even been able to tell we were related.
This could have been a great, interesting, and inspirational story if it had just a slight twist on the angle. How's this: "Family Comes Together to Sleep Tight and Not Let the Bedbugs Bite."
Much better.
And as I watch ABC at this very moment, tonight there will be a special about a family who experienced some terrible thing on PRIME TIME. It's even called, PRIME TIME CRIME. What is this world coming to?
(Speaking of crime and violence, at Team Gaia, our JaxTA group plans to campaign against crime and violence for our next group activity.)
So this brings me to ask, where does all the good news go? Well, here I must refer to the wonderful Billy Joel who said, "only the good die young?"
I think the reason that the six o'clock news and daily newspaper, lack rainbows and sunshine, is maybe because of the television drama. It's all about the bad stuff that happens to the characters, and as I said earlier in this blog--the people brush it off onto their plate and eat it for supper.
I've also heard people say "there's no money in good news." Is that all we're about - money? It may be up to us bloggers to criticize, but perhaps now it's also up to us to bring the good news back to life.
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