Fear: The Media Show.

Hurricanes, Fires, Economic doom, War Casualties, Genocides. Sound familiar? If you have ears and a boob tube than I'll answer that for you. YES. Its because that's all the news is about, especially on a national level. True, here and there a story of hope, of courage and human love is featured, but I don't think that anywhere near enough of these stories are dug up and fed to the public. We have a terrible diet filled with fear, because fear sells, fear sells easily. Everyone has to make money, yes even journalists.

A story on the Economy and how its going to hell, or of a famine in God knows where is simple to write about and everyone reads it, obviously its interesting. I'm not going to say we shouldn't be informed about these things by any means, but I wish there was some balance. As many stories on good deeds, prosperity, American pride, human victory over some kind of oppression, heck anything would be great. A country uplifted on the inspiration of goodwill and a positive backset would, in my opinion, be way more successful than one that is constantly mumbling and grumbling about this and that.

So people, get inspired. Read your news and learn of disasters and oppressions and then do something, anything, to counter them. There is much hope out there, you just have to dig a little deeper and try a little harder to find it. Once you've found it I think it should be inspiration to do something about all the evils of our world.

I suggest the Christian Science Monitor, It updates one on world news and at the same time sets out a positive message. It has examples of people overcoming these problems, not just the people who were doomed by them.