If you look at the news media, you will find that goodness makes no news. You wake up in the morning, you habitually go to yahoo front page, you are forced to read all the evil news early morning. And you feel bad. News media thrives on evil happenings in the world. A man wakes up, goes to temple, goes to work, goes to exercise, gives money to poor etc etc...it makes no news. A man who works on wall street as CEO of a wall street firm swindles the bank of millions. This makes great news. Usually the news is much worse than that.
What exactly is the point in reading all this news early morning. Do you really need to know a random story of incest in a foreign country. Perhaps not. Journalists have to keep their audiences hooked. In the age of ratings and revenues, it is very important for journalist to keep coming up with "great" stories all the time. How is it possible. In a real world, the real news content would be variable. It may take one page today or two pages tomorrow. But the news that you see on TV or radio is usually fixed in time. Same is true with news papers. Number of pages in a newspaper was usually fixed too. This makes you wonder, if the "news" really depends on the people who put the news out for you. Who needs this kind of news ?
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