If you're like me you don't watch much TV. I'm not your average American I assume as most people do actually watch a lot of TV. They DVR things and watch it later. They have news or a show on during dinner, as they get dressed in the morning and/or watch their soaps during lunch. You carry a mini TV in your pocket if you are a smart phone user and still have a data plan capable of enough to actually watch Netflix, Hulu or Amazon Prime on the go.
However, I like the old fashioned way of looking up my news on the internet and scrolling headlines and brief descriptions to decide if it is an article or video clip I want to watch. Every day I'm looking for a feel good story. I want something that reminds me that their is good in the world. Today I scrolled through CNN.com and Yahoo.com and found not one article that I would consider a feel good story.
With everything going on in our World and the 24/7 non-stop news coverage of every little detail of life, can we not have something positive. Must everything be about Ebola, ISIS, the economy still struggling to get back to where it was, etc.
I'm not trying to downplay the importance of any of those issues, but I feel that we are inundated with the doom and gloom of the world. What does that do to our lives and the lives of young people when all they see are the negatives in the World. I don't want fluff peaces about someone saving a kitty from a tree everyday, but their has to be stories worthy of a feel good nature that get some air play around here.
I decided to Google: Feel Good News Stories and believe it or not their are actually a few websites out there for these.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/Good_News/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/good-news/
The ones above are just two examples of sites with feel good stories. My next question will be though why are these sites not more hyped. Why isn't their a prominent link to these on the main websites.
I challenge each of you to take a look at them, bookmark them, return to them often for a good read or look further for sites or articles of your own. Even better write your own feel good stories. Maybe it is something that you have done or something that someone in the community has done that hasn't seemed to get enough attention. Post it on facebook and encourage others to share. I'd love to start a list of all the sites and stories for us to share because we need to keep front and center all the good that is in the World or else we lose sight of what we are fighting for.
Peace, Love and Puppy Dogs,
J
However, I like the old fashioned way of looking up my news on the internet and scrolling headlines and brief descriptions to decide if it is an article or video clip I want to watch. Every day I'm looking for a feel good story. I want something that reminds me that their is good in the world. Today I scrolled through CNN.com and Yahoo.com and found not one article that I would consider a feel good story.
With everything going on in our World and the 24/7 non-stop news coverage of every little detail of life, can we not have something positive. Must everything be about Ebola, ISIS, the economy still struggling to get back to where it was, etc.
I'm not trying to downplay the importance of any of those issues, but I feel that we are inundated with the doom and gloom of the world. What does that do to our lives and the lives of young people when all they see are the negatives in the World. I don't want fluff peaces about someone saving a kitty from a tree everyday, but their has to be stories worthy of a feel good nature that get some air play around here.
I decided to Google: Feel Good News Stories and believe it or not their are actually a few websites out there for these.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/Good_News/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/good-news/
The ones above are just two examples of sites with feel good stories. My next question will be though why are these sites not more hyped. Why isn't their a prominent link to these on the main websites.
I challenge each of you to take a look at them, bookmark them, return to them often for a good read or look further for sites or articles of your own. Even better write your own feel good stories. Maybe it is something that you have done or something that someone in the community has done that hasn't seemed to get enough attention. Post it on facebook and encourage others to share. I'd love to start a list of all the sites and stories for us to share because we need to keep front and center all the good that is in the World or else we lose sight of what we are fighting for.
Peace, Love and Puppy Dogs,
J
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