Sensational Journalism – Media Hype
This year for my wife and I it’s been fairly traumatic because we have had to handle her breast cancer and our elder two daughter’s weddings – my wife made the dresses while undergoing treatment. We used to watch the evening news at about 10 o’clock at night before going to bed but realized that actually the negative content of the news as reported quite often resulted in us not sleeping well. On Seth Godin’s blog this week he made a very interesting statement about news reporting and content. If we continue to allow the media to dictate our thinking then we end up believing, very often, that the sky is falling in. In reality the sky isn’t falling in. Yes there are bad things happening all over the world but that’s always been the case it’s just that we’ve become much better at global communication and in particular finding bad news. So what is the answer? Find some good news.
We voted with our feet and switched off the television. We actually kept it on and watched numerous episodes of scrubs, highly entertaining and subsequently would actually sleep at night. The world doesn’t stop because we didn’t watch the news and we learnt become much more selective about what we watch and won’t be listened to.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/10/the-problem-with-cable-news.html
Tags: Bad News, Breast Cancer, Cable News, Dresses, Global Communication, Media Hype, Negative Content, O Clock, Sensational Journalism, Seth Godin, Sky, Sleep, Television, Undergoing Treatment, Weddings, World Doesn
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