Last week, a Wall Street Journal columnist said that this is a media driven recession now. The media's constant doom and gloom with no counter positive news is a major factor in causing people to not invest or buy which further depresses the economy in his opinion. He stated that even with all the unemployment, people saved 5% of their income in January which is a record high since the early '70's. They are saving out of fear.
The columnist then started mentioning companies that were doing well and said if the media fairly reported the news both good and bad, citizens would not be as scared and buy things, banks would start lending again, and we would all live happily ever after.
Well I guess Brian Williams from NBC this week asked readers for good news to counter all the negative news that he reports. He was overwhelmed with positive news.
Here's the story:
"Williams hears viewers' plea for good news
NBC anchor says request for positive stories has hit ‘incredible nerve’
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams asked viewers to send in their suggestions for good news to lift the recent dreary newscasts, and the response has been overwhelming...
Still, even he was shocked at the thousands of responses he has received in less than two days after asking viewers to suggest some good news to report.
"I'm looking at a stack of printed e-mails," Williams said Friday. "We have more stories than we could humanly cover if we combined all three network newscasts. It's hit an unbelievable nerve."
Williams said he's been hearing it repeatedly from people he meets on the street or viewers who send e-mails: The news is so bad every night that it's a burden to watch. Wrote one viewer: "We all know it's bad, but the news makes us feel like crawling under a rock."
...So he made a plea seconds before the end of NBC's newscast on Wednesday: We're looking for good news...
"It really told me something," he said. "I have learned a lot. I thought I knew all there was about the good nature of Americans, and this was a flood."
... His "good news" idea runs the risk of being cloying, but Williams said a newscast, like a newspaper, has room for a diversity of stories..."
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However, I know we have had cancellations from guests who cancelled because they were afraid of the economy. I know the media's job is to make everything look way worse than what it is because they think that makes people turn on the news. However, if you look at newspapers, you see positive and negative news. Maybe TV news should start doing the same thing and Brian Williams learned.
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2 comments:
I'd love to beat the drum of good news, but here in Flint, well, when you've got almost 10% funemployment and nothing but a raft of low- paying jobs (seriously- how do you support a family on 7 bucks an hour?). What's really sad is that some of these companies also have facilities in other counties (nat'l's like Mickey D's and Arby's) who pay more for the same work than here in Flint. I could go to Brighton and make three bucks more an hour flipping burgers and handing out ketchup. Those who are trying to gloss over this recession as 'media driven' are not the ones who have to stand in food lines or live in their cars.
Hi Mencken,
I know how tough it is. The WHOLE state of California has over 10% unemployment and our county is about 12%. Our business from Californians is less than 15% now.
However, luckily for us, we have always had the reputation of being the Only nudsit resort that caters to vacationers in the Western US so we have more Canadians for instance than Californians stay with us now.
The media does not help the recession as it is scaring so many people into not spending. Our country is now saving over 5% which is the most in decades. However, that doesn't help get us out of the recession.
If the media didn't scare everyone so much, people would start spending more.
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