7 Pieces of Good News No One Is Reporting The news media has a filtering process that only lets the bad stuff through. When they do break up the monotony with something lighthearted, it’s always something pointless and inconsequential, like that thing recently with the monkey that learned to fly a helicopter. But there actually [...]
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Not All Journalists Are Too Lazy or Cynical to Actually Do the Work to Find Interesting Good News
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged journalism, news on July 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Dumbed-Down Demagoguery Declining in Popularity
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged media, news on June 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Jon Stewart’s Ratings Are Now Higher Than All Of Fox News According to the May Nielson ratings, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart beat the entire Fox News network in terms of total viewers. Stewart averaged 2.3 million viewers, while the Fox News prime time and day time line up averaged 1.85 million viewers.
Do You Have the Discipline to Tune Into the Beauty and Truth?
Posted in Web Sites, tagged good news, news on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Good News Network I think the press, including TV journalism, has an ethical responsibility, a sacred responsibility, a service mission . . . to make good news just as entertaining (as we’ve made sexy the violence). — Marianne Williamson
The Pronoia of Technology
Posted in Videos, tagged facebook, news, twitter on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How Twitter can make history While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.
Documenting the Flood of Blessings
Posted in Web Sites, tagged good news, news on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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If You Don’t Like the News, Go out and Make Some of Your Own
Posted in Web Sites, tagged change the world, innovation, news on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Change the World News CThings is the work of a community of people who contribute news stories about the amazing things people are doing to change the world. Our community aggregates stories of real innovation, breakthrough, and the triumph of the human spirit.
I Dare You to Be Optimistic
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged current events, news, optimism on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Things are still getting better
Counteract the Daily Brainwashing
Posted in Web Sites, tagged good news, news on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Get Good News Daily
Balancing out the Pop-Nihilists of the Mainstream Media
Posted in Web Sites, tagged news, optimism on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nothing but good news here
Spritually Activated News: Rose Colored News
Posted in Web Sites, tagged news, progressive, spirituality on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Good news for progressives about politics, the environment, health, and more: http://www.rosecolorednews.com/
Victories in 2007
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged 2007, news, victories on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Good, tough news: Victories in 2007
Global Flash Points: How to Spot Signs of Peace
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged news, peace, signs on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Future good, tough news? Global Flash Points: How to Spot Signs of Peace
Mutant News Blog
Posted in Web Sites, tagged blog, mutant, news on January 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
eBlips: “Emergent Culture MetaFilter” Some recent headlines Dancing in the Streets, Barbara Ehrenreich‘s history of sacred fun Robert Anton Wilson Death Blog? Secret Drugs of Buddhism The Next Revolution in Biology? “Solar Rain” – Global Warming NOT Due to Carbon? Don’t Call Me Gaia