Why report news if 98 percent of it is going to be exaggerated and bad?

Question

I give up watching the news. Just about every story is about something bad as they exaggerate the real story. It is the media's responsibility to get the news out in a unbiased form or fashion. Not to make something out of nothing. That is not their job.

Answer 1

Look at the content of a typical newsday. There's a lot more neutral stories out there than you think.

It may lean to "bad news" because bad news is often out of the ordinary -- plane makes emergency landing, terrorists set off bomb in Kabul, etc. But there's also lots of good news out there if you look around.

Don't get discouraged. I don't watch much local news on TV because it sometimes highlights stories like robberies and shootings that don't affect me. But there's other stuff out there that's important, locally and nationally. You need to know all of it, at least to a certain extent.

Answer 2

It's called making money.

Answer 3

meh