Why don't we talk about good news ?

Did you notice when watching television news, that there are not a lot of good news. We are always talking about all the bad things that happen. I don't know but it may be around 80% of the watched time. I heard someone already tried to do a special TV program with just good news but it didn't work. So why are we more interested about bad things instead of good?

Here is a (French) article about why we especially like bad news :
https://www.liguedesoptimistes.fr/2014/12/07/pourquoi-nous-aimons-surtout-les-mauvaises-nouvelles/

But still, to my mind we should focus more on innovations or people who help the world instead of destroying it (environmentally speaking: the movie "Demain" from Cyril Dion and Melanie Laurent is really great for people who want to see about opportunities to improve the world), trusting people and not just the one who spend their time to betray others (ex: Benalla's case)...
When you look for actualities on google the first result is about rotten meat from Poland found in 9 compagnies in France, then you have all the prices of goods and motorway tolls increasing and to finish all Donald Trump's foolishness.

Can we just, for once, speak about happy things ?
Please share about this or your ideas to improve the situation.

Do you think that there is any truth to the idea that bad news for other people makes us feel better?

I think that's totally true, and it's the same case in many other situations of life, for example in the love relation or in group school works.
I don't really know why but it's real : we always prefer to talk about bad things than the goods. Maybe it's because we easily remark the bad things because they disturb us while the good maybe we don't even notice them. In the medias, I just think that the bad news are really more selling than the good, while they are not less interesting than the bad, so they talk about them always and always and it's really annoying

Damaye Alexis wrote:I think that's totally true, and it's the same case in many other situations of life, for example in the love relation or in group school works.
I don't really know why but it's real : we always prefer to talk about bad things than the goods. Maybe it's because we easily remark the bad things because they disturb us while the good maybe we don't even notice them. In the medias, I just think that the bad news are really more selling than the good, while they are not less interesting than the bad, so they talk about them always and always and it's really annoying

It's always like that, people remembers all the bad thing a lot of time but forget all the good thing in some days..
But like you say Léa, it's because of our media, we have one good article for 9 bad news...

Well, as someone who tries to keep up by watching the news, I did notice that most of the time, I'm only watching or reading bad news. Not because it makes me feel better or anything (at least not consciously I would say), quite the opposite in fact, but I find it important to know what is going on outside my cocoon. I do agree with the idea that we should talk about good news too, but we shouldn't shrug off bad news, because they still happen. And even if we feel like we can't do anything about it, talking about it or knowing about it is always better than just nothing.

I think we should find a balance between good news and bad news, at least that's how media should handle it. I don't know, for one piece of bad news, one piece of good news.

I mean, when I spend sometimes watching news on the internet, I always stop myself to do something that makes me happy, preferably something that doesn't involve social media or whatsoever. Reading something about what I love, going out to walk a bit...

Do you think that there is any truth to the idea that bad news for other people makes us feel better?

Sadly, I kinda feel so. In a twisted way, people enjoy learning about bad news that don't affect them, because it makes them happy about their lives, and maybe makes them feel even better. I mean, thinking about it, I wonder if this also applies to me in a way. Who knows.

Not quite on topic but didn't want to open a new thread when so many of you are opening interesting threads.

Just saw this on the news and wondered what you think?

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-47092727/did-finland-s-basic-income-experiment-work

Hi, I think it's a very good question Léa !

I agree with all of you, unfortunately, good news works less than bad news. I don't know if it's because bad news for other people makes us feel better …maybe humans are like that. Few years ago, M6 launched a show around 6 o'clock to talk about good news, just to oppose bad news, but the show ended, maybe because not enough people were interested in good news...I think It was 100% MAG but I'm not so sure…

I saw your video John, and I think It's a complicated subject…give money to unemployed people in order to motivate them to have a job, and a better life is interesting but as we saw, I can work in some cases but not every time… the unemployment is a very complicated thing, and the magic solution doesn't exist …. Do you think it's normal to give money for unemployed people and taxes for the other including families who have difficulties to finish the month? Maybe yes, maybe no, I don't know, maybe sometimes yes, maybe sometimes no…I think the real problem isn't the money but work. Or maybe both. If there was a job for everyone then maybe we wouldn't have that problem…

So it's a complicated subject, and I don't think that I have a position on this, but I think that Finland initiative is good because they did something at least…

Hi everyone!

Indeed the technic of channels to present the bad news more than good news is quite manipulating but unfortunately it's what people want!
Bad news attracts a bigger audience!

My concern is why we see very often scientific-technological news or art-cultural news on TV which are always good innovated and creative news!

I watched too your video John and I remembered when I read about this experiment!
I found it very motivated to help an unemployed to step in his own legs but as we show in video it's not so easy to find a work even in Finland with an unemployment rate of 7.6%.

The funny in this case is that the government provides an unemployment fund of 700 euro, but if you haven't worked at least 18 hours or if you haven't earned an income of at least 241 euro from self-employment, the last 3 months you will lose 4,65% of your next unemployment fund!
It means that the government punishes the unemployment because they can't find a job!


Here is the law:
https://www.kela.fi/web/en/amount-of-the-unemployment-benefit

Hi everyone,
I agree with all of you thinking it’s a form of control in actual society. People are scared when you speak on bad news, moreover everything feel better in your life. You say, “The world and my country are not fine so, my situation is fine finally, I can’t complain”. You don’t try to improve the different thing in your life and in your country thank’s to this brainwhashing.
For example the yellow jacket, the TV have to muck speaking about this subject on TV/radio and society forgot the message of this people and just keep the bad action and news on the subject.
An ideal media for me it’s a plateform we speak the same time about bad new to good news. It’s important to speak a lot about actual nobel price, research in engineering or humanity action in the world all of this it’s most inspiring for people than bad new’s.
I’m convince with equality of good news in the big media, you can change the mentality and the negative vision of a lot of people in France. I don’t know if this type of media exist but if not he need to be create.
Never forgot, lot of people after an heavy day of work, just have TV for be connect to the world, media can be a weapons against peoples lives in ignorance with lack education.
See you,
A.

Hello everybody, it's a very interesting subject and I am completely agree with Emeline : we have to make the balance between bad news and good news.
And this platform is a very good example because we talk about good news such as cinéma, sciences... but we talk too about bad news such as violence during yellow jackets manifestation.
That's why I develop my blog to talk about subject I love and it's better for my moral.

Good bye and it was a pleasure to speak about this subject.

Hello everybody, I agree with what i read, sadly we only remember the bad news. Maybe the world could be better if everyone was able to be nice and divulgate good noew and good vibes. It sounds a little bit like an Hippie person But sadly, we live in real life, we can divulgate good news and focus on it but it's important to not forget the bad things appened for maybe, changes its.

I don't know if this is good news - that it's being looked at or bad news that it exists. whichever it's worthy of discussion:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47134033

And then the other big talk. Is this good that he has admitted it and reformed or bad that he did it?:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47117177

John for your subject on Liam Neeson, I clearly find that he is racist even if he says the opposite in his interview. Why, he specifies like that "kill a black man" and generalizes as if "it was all blacks".

If it were, a white man who had raped his loved one, I'm not sure he would have attacked all whites by generalizing like that or by killing all the whites he met on the street for revenge.
So I think it's very stupid, even if I like the actor for his films, especially Taken.

Now, is it a good thing that he admitted that it would surprise me, the cinema is the show especially among the Anglo-Saxons without offending you JOHN. But, the USA is a good example, so he was just looking for the BUZZ.

The proof is that he is found no black people, that he has assaulted or whatever so he should come out of his murder delusions. With a behavior like I'm sure we'll wait until he's murdered someone in his family or something. It's just, someone who has murderous impulses like everyone else we see on the news: Nordahl Lelandais, Michel Fourniret or Jonhatan DAVAL etc.... Because the fact that his first thought is to kill is worrying
The future will tell us more about Liam Neeson