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Opinion

Don’t focus only on negative headlines

Guest Author

As tweeted by Rob Schneider, “If you turn off the news and step outside to talk to your neighbor, you’ll find our country is far more harmonious than you’re being told. The media seems to be portraying only negative things lately, and is viewing our country as a glass half empty.”
For example, in the same week that the Charlottesville white supremacist movement, did you know that U.S. doctors were able to reverse a two-year-old girl’s brain damage after her heart stopped beating on its own for two hours as a result of her drowning?
This is the kind of news that we don’t hear about as often due to the media’s negative outlook on the world. In the month of July, several positive things happened in our country that didn’t receive well-deserved news coverage.
Just a few weeks ago, 60 U.S. schools installed washers and dryers for homeless and troubled students. In that same week, Detroit hired over 8,000 youth workers between the ages of 18 and 24. These employees were also given the opportunity to get workplace training such as medical first responder training and culinary arts.
While I do believe it is important that we as citizens are well-informed about the terrorist threats that our country faces, potential wars we are entering, and the actions of our government (interchangeably negative and positive), I think it is just as important that we are informed about the positive things that are happening in our country and community.
With all of the sad events happening not only in our country but in our world, it’s important to change our outlook every now and again in order to gain a better, healthier, and more positive perspective on the world that we live in.
A positive outlook creates a positive mind, which then turns into positive actions that can be the change. Thomas Jefferson said that a journalist’s job is to report accurately on what is happening in the society. There will always be good and bad in the world, but it’s important that we are just as informed of the good as we are of the bad.