Good News is Hard to Find – and Doesn’t Make the News

On August 11, I posted on several positive social trends and how the Manstream media would not cover them. Media leaders are gradually becoming concerned about overly pessimistic coverage in Iraq.Katharine Q. Seelye reports on a conference of Associated Press editors:

Some editors expressed concern that a kind of bunker mentality was preventing reporters in Iraq from getting out and explaining the bigger picture beyond the daily death tolls.
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"Other editors said they get calls from readers who are hearing stories from returning troops of the good things they have accomplished while there, and readers find that at odds with the generally gloomy portrayal in the papers of what's going on in Iraq,"
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the editors understood that it was much easier to add up the number of dead than to determine how many hospitals received power on a particular day or how many schools were built.
….Mr. Silverman said the wire service was covering Iraq "as accurately as we can" while "also trying to keep our people out of harm's way."

In many ways, I share with the press’ a suspicion about this administration – see my postings on Curveball. Still, the press could improve it’s credibility by being less negative and digging a little harder for good news. Who knows, it might even get better circulation if people did not turn on the TV expecting some pundit to be yelling about the outrage of the day.