Negative Headlines

[Caged Anger]

Anyone else sick of them?

Alright, i get it, the world is royally screwed up, its painfully obvious now.
Could we get some good headlines about the efforts being undertaken to fix the problems now? Seriously, throw some of this negative energy into constructive problem solving already...

[OUTLAWS The Machine]

I agree. I think things would turn around faster without all the media's negativity.

[JIMINATOR]

unfortunately the human ego is not built to process good news well, unless it pertains to themselves. The "heartwarming" stories are a bit of an exception, but only if they are few and infrequent. Nope, what the ego likes is to see other people get smacked down hard, that way it gets to feel that things are not quite so bad. There is a certain feeling of superiority that goes along with "other people have it worse" no matter how much people want to deny that they have those feelings. That is why bad news sells and gets the ratings. Compare things like terrorism and car accidents. Terrorism gets the front page headlines, where a few thousand people in total died of it over the last 10 years. Car accident deaths are in the 10s of thousands every single year yet get no play because the deaths are "common" and not dramatic enough to warrant reporting on.

[Nitro]

http://www.happynews.com/

http://www.positivenews.org.uk/cgi-bin/Positive_News/welcome.cgi

[EXEcution]

To quote the Joker from TDK.

"I just did what I do best. I took your little plan and I turned it on itself. Look what I did to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple of bullets. Hmmm? You know... You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan." But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds!
Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos."

Chaos sells.

[FUS1ON]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCOqSUNspHA

[NightBreed]

I've about had enough of those " are you ready for the switch to digital ? " ads..I've got an old hermit uncle who's still got an ancient Philco outta the 60's and an old aerial up on the roof..Do they mean to tell me there's that many more like him out there that it's a major issue ?

God help us all....

[Nitro]

I haven't seen any of those ads. Then again, I still have a tv with rabbit ears, which I watch once in a blue moon.

[Caged Anger]

unfortunately the human ego is not built to process good news well, unless it pertains to themselves. The "heartwarming" stories are a bit of an exception, but only if they are few and infrequent. Nope, what the ego likes is to see other people get smacked down hard, that way it gets to feel that things are not quite so bad. There is a certain feeling of superiority that goes along with "other people have it worse" no matter how much people want to deny that they have those feelings. That is why bad news sells and gets the ratings. Compare things like terrorism and car accidents. Terrorism gets the front page headlines, where a few thousand people in total died of it over the last 10 years. Car accident deaths are in the 10s of thousands every single year yet get no play because the deaths are "common" and not dramatic enough to warrant reporting on.

Are not the current headlines contradictory then in that they are broadcasting headlines saying that EVERYONE is screwed, not just other people. So in a sense they are targetting the negativity to you.

[ME BIGGD01]

I pretty much don't watch any television unless there is a movie on. I just am sick of hearing the negatives myself along with hate the amount of commercials on any show to which I find extremely insulting considering the amount of life wasted having to be interupted from your entertainment.

At this point in my life, I will just see the negatives in the statement of 401k and earnings this past year. Talk about getting robbed from your own Government:down: or just plain ass raped without any lube.

Regardless, I think people are getting sick of it all. The negatives and the misery is overwhelming. I think I am going to continue the approach of not supporting the networks or products that feed them. That would be a positive thing.

[Nitro]

Husband's kiss woke 'sleeping beauty wife' in coma after heart attack

After two weeks sitting by his wife's bedside hoping she would wake from a coma, Andrew Ray was at his wits' end.

Doctors had told him Emma could become a real-life sleeping beauty when she failed to regain consciousness after a heart attack.

The distraught father of two played her tapes of their baby son crying and their daughter shouting 'wake up Mummy!'.

Finally, in desperation, he leant over her hospital bed and pleaded: 'Emma, if you can hear me, please just give me a kiss.'

What happened next was beyond my wildest dreams,' he said. 'She turned her head towards mine, puckered up her lips and gave me a little kiss.

'I couldn't believe it. My heart felt like it was going to leap from my chest - it suddenly felt like a huge weight had been lifted.'

The kiss was witnessed by doctors who were astonished by the 34-year-old's sudden response.

Mrs Ray had suffered the heart attack just ten days after giving birth to her son.

Her horrified husband had to give her mouth-to-mouth after she collapsed while they were out shopping. She was taken to hospital where doctors were able to restart her heart but warned she could remain in a coma indefinitely.

Mr Ray said a doctor told him: 'She could wake up the following day, she could wake up in a month, or you may be left with a sleeping beauty.'

The IT consultant from Telford, Shropshire, tried to rouse his wife by playing recordings of their baby son Alexander and toddler Ella.

He said: 'I would play Emma the sounds of Alexander crying and gurgling, Ella singing and shouting "Wake up Mummy!".

'I even played her recordings of the songs we had danced to during our wedding.

'I would speak softly to her, clasp her hand, pinch her fingers, all the time telling her I loved her or begging her to wake up. By the time I asked her to kiss me I was approaching my wits' end.'

However, the kiss was just the start of an agonising battle for Mrs Ray, who continued to drift in and out of consciousness.

Her brain had been starved of oxygen when her heart stopped beating and the resulting injury left her with short-term memory loss.

Mrs Ray was transferred from the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital to a specialist brain injury rehabilitation unit at the Hayward Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent.

She was eventually allowed home but now - almost two years later - the former IT consultant still needs ongoing rehabilitation for the brain damage she suffered.

Doctors believe her heart attack may have been caused by a blood clot after her son Alexander, now two, was delivered by Caesarean section.

She had been to see a GP the night before her cardiac arrest, complaining of palpitations, but was told it was probably down to a minor infection.

Mrs Ray said: 'The recovery is awful because I have so little memory.

'I would wish above all else to be well, to walk unaided and to have my memory back.

'I would love to remember what I've done each day. Andrew helps me to do everything. Without him I don't know how I'd cope.'

Mr Ray said he was just grateful his wife had survived. He said: 'She can walk quite well holding hands now, and at least our kids still have a mother and I still have a wife.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1127393/Husbands-kiss-woke-sleeping-beauty-wife-coma-heart-attack.html

[FUS1ON]

Look out sucker, don't be coming in here with that feelgood crap ruining my P.O. attitude. :D

That was a worthwhile read, it's good to hear something positive for a change.

[Death Engineer]

DVR does wonders on commercials. ;)