“Volcanic ash disrupts UK flights…”
“The UK and northern Europe could be gripped by more frequent cold winters as a result of low solar activity….”
“Iran needs only six years for bomb…”
“Gang rape crisis in Congo…”
“Shots fired near Kyrgyz leader…”
These are just some of headlines taken from BBC website today. I could go on and on with quotes of various disastrous events from all over the world. If you switch on any TV or radio news channel it is more less the same. Doom and terrible gloom at every coming minute from every corner of the world.
Sometimes, I am surprised that we don’t have most of the people on suicide watch. According to the news, the world is full of crap and it isn’t worth making the effort to live in.
We are bombarded with fear and there is no place to hide.
But, in our daily life do these things really matter? Are we all really that badly affected by something like “At least one dead in Jakarta cleric tomb”(another headline from BBC today)?
Of course we are not. Most of these type of natural or man influenced horrible events have been daily occurrence since the beginning of time. The only difference is that today’s technology has made information about it instantly available to everyone.
Unfortunately, it is seldom that we hear the news that inspire or just put a smile on our face in the morning.
The news about a 13-year-old American boy who is to try to become the youngest person to scale the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, or a UK village which raised £37000 to offer 200 homes the super-fast broadband that BT could not deliver has launched its network, are confined within hidden depths of “also in the news” and “strange news” sections of news channel websites. Why is that?
The only answer I can think of is that good news are harder to sell, while the fear, in business terms is self sufficient. It’s cheep to produce and everyone is “buying”.
Well, today, I am not buying any bad news. Sun is shining and my bicycle ride to work was most enjoyable. Chelsea is the top of the league and in the FA cup final. I am planning a short trip to Milan this weekend. And last but not least my three weeks old nephew has smiled at me for the first time.
Life has never been as good.
2 comments:
I am glad to see people reaching out to each other in this disaster.I remeber the chaos that erupted in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.It almost make me ashamed to be an American at the time.
I feel somewhat similar,take any news medium,the top news are either about bombings or some kind of killings or rapes,and then there is page 3,many real news are dumped into not so imporant pages.
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