- Crime and Punishment
- Politics
- Natural disasters
- Local sports
- Local weather
Charles "Tremendous" Jones, a noted motivational speaker, once said that there are only two areas of the newspaper he regularly reads - sports and the comics. As he noted, sports talks of overcoming adversity and triumphing over long odds, about successes and accomplishments. He further went on to say that comics add humor to our lives. His choice to avoid the remainder of the paper was to limit his negativity input. With TV and Radio, we don't have the same options. If we turn them off, how would we know when to turn them back on for the news we wanted?
Now don't get me wrong, I have no objections to learning what is happening around me. I just object to the news media spoon-feeding me sound bites designed to keep me coming back, and coincidentally, making their advertisers happy.
There are some exceptions, of course, news shows with regular human interest features or other feel-good pieces. I just wish they were the norm, not the exception.
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