I've been watching a lot of news as of late and I kinda feel that it's not reflecting the lives and interests of everyday people enough. Sure reports on how the situations in Iraq, Pakistan and Spain in recent days are of our national and personal interests, however for the most part I occasionaly see or read anything to affects me as an individual that lets me see that there are actualy positive things going on in our country or the world.

One can understand that local and major news has it's eye focused on events abroad. However, I feel that there is a disconnect from the stories of people that don't make you think to yourself, "The world obviously doesn't want to change".

I understand that the media is in the business of reporting all that is relevant to national affarirs, but do you feel that your over saturated by what you're seeing on the news these days? If you can sum up the main points of a story after only 4 seconds of a 25-30 sec news piece, then don't you feel that the reporting has become transparent in some way? Iy you can see where a story is going to end right from the begining then how compeling is it?

Yes, one can see through a cloud when looking up at the sky, yet it doesn't have depth. Just as that is true it is also true that we for the most part only care about clouds when it is about to rain. So they only have relevance when it is raining. So there's nothing interesting about them when it's a sunny and pleasant day, right? Is this the general feeling that we get from the news on a daily basis?

Someone is always murdered. Someone is always abducted. Someone always is convicted of a crime. Someone is always being shot. A school is always failing to meet the standards of educating children in some way. That's what we see on a monthly and even yearly basis on our local and national news. Interesting... it's only occasionally when a school is spotlighted for graduating a higher percentage of students from a year before. It's only occasionally that you hear about a kid who's been in foster care most of his life to go on to do exceptionally well in school. It's only occasionally that you hear about someone going out of their way to do something charitable for someone or their community.

Now I'm sure that such stories are important for the news agencies to share with the public, but it would seem to me that they aren't relevant enough to be shared with the public. I don't know. I would think that more stories like the examples above and others would make someone believe that in some way the world actually does want to change. Hmmmmmmm.... guess the media a pessimistic frame of mind when it comes to looking at the world. That's perfectly fine, just I'm tired of them sharing it with us everyday.

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