http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/opinion/keller-good-news-no-really.html
for article...
I'm not sure why the modern American news media always seem to feel they need to feed us a \"feel good story\", usually at the end of the network newscasts -- it is time we Americans faced the disaster we have created for ourselves.
And the \"good news\" Mr Keller quotes is really scraping the bottom of the barrel, if we have to go to Liberia and Somalia for \"good\" news.
It would be more useful if the Editor of an influential source such as the NYT took an honest and forthright look at the problems and potential solutions we have in the US, and took a non-weasel-out stand on the current \"debate\" in Congress about how to correct the deficit-lack-of-jobs-deteriorating-infrastructure-etc-etc situation which our money-lobby-special-interest driven political system has gotten us into...
\"Fair and Balanced Journalism\" does not mean that you just let each side spout its gobble-de-gook, it means checking what is true, factual and makes sense, and then having the courage to say so....
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