Good News, Bad News.

I was never the type of kid who would change the channel from cartoons to watch the news. But lately there is not much I would rather watch than the 6 o'clock news.

Today I turned on CBC and was a little taken aback. It's not that it was uninteresting, and in no means was it boring; but throughout the entire newscast I can't remember a single story of good news.

There were Vancouver teachers protesting the budget cuts, there was a story about a 20 year old East Vancouver man being treated for bullet wounds, a fist fight between a police officer and a pedestrian who was j-walking. There was a former judge who is being accused of assisted suicide, an investigation on the bombing of Air India flight 182, and even in sports there were people complaining about the Switzerland-Spain World Cup soccer upset. Now is it just me or is that a little shocking.

A whole hour of news, and not one pleasant story. It makes me wonder what kind of a world we live in; where everyday there is a new case of murder, rape or theft, and it's not very often that you find a story of triumph or contentment.

It has been proven that viewers are always more intrigued with the bad news, but don't you find it just slightly daunting. I know people always get more heated into the shocking murder cases and shootings, or the controversial politics, it gives people something to protest or fight about. But why is it that no one seems to talk about the good news; is it just not as interesting, or is it that the human race finds the horrible news more satisfying?

I hope that today was just a bad day in news and that this isn't a pattern for the future.

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