Tuesday, July 31, 2007

BAD NEWS ABOUT NEWS

For FUN today I checked out a popular newsletter for TV folks and learned:
  • Robin Roberts has breast cancer
  • An TV producer depressed after being let go for drug abuse fell off a building and died
  • A Pittsburg anchor who'd been depressed is off the air
  • Tom Snyder died
  • Four chopper pilots and photographers died in a crashed covering a chase
  • A few more news people died and retired

and the GOOD news:

  • Another chopper came down but all 3 survived

Fun? Not. A coworker said: "People used to complain that the news was depressing. Now the news ABOUT the news is depressing."

I've got to wonder if we've fallen in a rut and don't know HOW to report good news --

or is the business really that bad?

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