INCREASING INCIDENCE OF Bad News

HAVE  you ever noticed that headlines proclaiming bad news awaken more reader interest than those conveying good news?  Whether it is a newspaper headline of a natural disaster or some scintillating gossip  splashed on the front cover of a glossy magazine, it seems that bad news   sells better than good news.

Today there is no shortage of bad news.  But one sometimes wonders whether  bad news is what reporters  and journalists are trained to look for and ferret out-to the exclusion of any good news.

Next time: Plentiful Throughout History

The Watchtower, 1996