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Bad news in the media is what sells, and it has become ubiquitous, such that we are inured to it.\u00a0\u00a0We can listen to the details of a triple-homicide and go on eating lunch.\u00a0\u00a0We sometimes seek out footage that the announcer warns \u201cmay be disturbing,\u201d a practice that psychologists call \u201cdoomscrolling.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0The media are filled with every form of violence, including violence against children and the elderly, and every sort of corruption, yet we suppose that exposure to such material will have no corrupting effect on us.\u00a0\u00a0And yet with every week that passes, assuming we spend the U.S. average of five hours per day on screens, we may become more callous and less likely to see the goodness in the world.<\/p>

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The truth is that what the media present in the way of murder and mayhem is not real.\u00a0\u00a0Yes, the violence that gets reported is factual, but the overemphasis on negative reporting misrepresents the true nature of life in America and in most other countries.\u00a0\u00a0The impression left by the media that most of life is ugly, violent, and corrupt \u2014 and that\u2019s the impression we get from 24\/7 reporting of bad news \u2014 is totally false.\u00a0\u00a0The truth is that there is goodness all around; it just doesn\u2019t get reported, because it doesn\u2019t attract eyeballs.<\/p>\n

The good news that the media distort is that there are hundreds of millions of good people in our country, and billions around the globe, whose days are filled with small acts of kindness, and occasionally with heroic acts that are not small by any measure.\u00a0\u00a0It would be refreshing to hear CNN or MS-NOW fill their broadcasts with reports on the lives of ordinary people who go to work each day, come home to care for their families, honor their parents, love their spouses, and look to God for guidance and support.\u00a0\u00a0People like that exist all across America, but not on the mainstream liberal media.<\/p>\n

The repercussions of this emphasis on bad news are great.\u00a0\u00a0For their own purposes, financial and otherwise, the media are spreading a negative view of life that ends up indoctrinating and demoralizing all of us.\u00a0\u00a0It requires a conscious effort to break through the fog of negativity and make our way into the bright light of God\u2019s love and the happiness and confidence that come with it.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s not as if those in the media \u2014 and the universities, politics, and corporations \u2014 don\u2019t have an agenda; they want the public to be robotic consumers of bad news so that the citizenry can be more easily controlled by an elite spread across our institutions.\u00a0\u00a0They want the public to be uncertain, doubting their instincts for kindness and responsibility and common sense.\u00a0\u00a0And the endless stream of negativity in every public forum is their means of demeaning faith and integrity and keeping the public in its place.<\/p>\n

On a personal level, bad news has been shown to be harmful\u00a0to one\u2019s health.\u00a0\u00a0The horrific stories that are featured every day in the media trigger the \u201cfight or flight\u201d response and the release of cortisol, leading to inflammation.\u00a0\u00a0At the very least, this inflammation promotes anxiety and depression, but often it results in physical damage leading to heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and other serious diseases.\u00a0\u00a0Clearly, a steady diet of bad news is toxic and should be avoided.<\/p>

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The solution to the bad news media is simply to tune it out.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s not necessary to stay informed about every mass shooting, every scandal, every rape, and act of terror in the entire country or even in our own counties.\u00a0\u00a0I don\u2019t need to watch the media to know what is happening in the worst sections of Chicago, Portland, or L.A., or even in my relatively peaceful community.\u00a0\u00a0Human nature hasn\u2019t changed for thousands of years, and anyone who has read Homer\u2019s Iliad<\/em> or Dante\u2019s Inferno<\/em> knows all there is to know about human beings at their worst.\u00a0\u00a0Achilles\u2019s mistreatment of Hector\u2019s body violated all the norms of warfare and of religion at the time, as it would today.\u00a0\u00a0Homer would not have been surprised by today\u2019s acts of violence, of corruption in Minnesota and elsewhere, or of teen \u201ctakeovers.\u201d<\/p>\n

I can predict what will be on the news tonight, and I don\u2019t want to hear the tawdry details.\u00a0\u00a0It is better to live within the goodness of one\u2019s family, friends, co-workers, and church \u2014 not to bury one\u2019s head in the sand, but to embrace the goodness of Creation and enjoy the happiness and health that come with it.\u00a0\u00a0One can know that there were some 15,000 murders and 70,000 drug overdoses in America last year, both down from recent numbers, and that children are abused every minute and the elderly are harmed, without surrendering one\u2019s happiness and freedom to a national culture that would have us submit to the idol of negativity and godlessness \u2014 and turn our lives over to a cynical class of elitists that seeks to control us.\u00a0\u00a0The truth that is everywhere around us there exist the unconditional love of parents, the kindness of neighbors, the positive values inscribed in our Constitution and traditions and on display in the 250 years of our nation\u2019s history.\u00a0\u00a0The truth that should be reported is that, despite our flaws, which are considerable, we are still children of God \u2014 noble, caring, and loving toward those around us.<\/p>\n

It is destructive, at the public level and the personal level, to allow our minds and bodies to be controlled by a national media establishment whose intent is to demoralize and confuse us so as to exploit and control us.\u00a0\u00a0The media would have us believe that there exists one crisis after another, each crying out for more \u201cprotection\u201d from government.\u00a0\u00a0The reality is much more hopeful and wondrous: We live among people who, for the most part, are decent and caring, and we enjoy the fruits of an abundant land and miraculous technology.\u00a0\u00a0We are surrounded by goodness, a fact that can be obscured only if we kowtow to the \u201cauthority\u201d of the media and the false teaching of schools and colleges.\u00a0\u00a0As long as we retain our faith in the goodness of life and the goodness of others, we will continue to live unintimidated and free.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Folks is the author of many books and articles on American culture, most recently <\/em>Heartland of the Imagination (2011).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

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