Good News.

[Pann]

News today included a Scots woman conquoring Everest, after cycling from the Dead Sea (lowest earthly point to highest earthly point).

Weather stayed fine here in the Peaks.

78 people led to safety after ending of aircraft highjack in the arrest of a man.

I spent the day with my younger sis, dd, and dd's two cousins.

Organised a day with my friend over from Canada, and her 5 month old, for a week on Saturday.

Do we EVER make effort to manage the types of 'news' we make, or come accross? The blisteringly misery of the items in the past couple of days has really focussed me on the question. Do we habitually, and seemingly powerlessly, allow the agents of news dictate how we will feel about the world on any given day?

OR do we consciously 'manage' the news to keep it's effect in proportion to the rest of our lives, and consider our own intimacies of life as 'news'.

Anyone.

that's an example of what I mean colditz - I haven't read/heard anything else as a way of self-management on this.

Close of play for me.

Started this thead as Pannland was a good place to be today, and am committed to not letting 'news' affect this badly, or for any other day. There is a good way of managing it, some already discussed, as a practice.

Charlotte's Web tomorrow.

night.

I "manage" the news I consume by reading teletext. (and it's interesting - to me - how even there the two different channels can present the same story with a different emphasis in just a few very short paragraphs). I only put the news on if I want to hear more about a particular story, usually something big, or something local.

I tend not to read newspapers either, though we do have the local rag. It is quite noticeable how many stories are inaccurate in some way, and that's only the news I actually know something about. Dread to think how many inaccuracies there are across the whole paper, and the nationals, which readers have no inkling of.

When I see so many inaccuracies, I find it hard to take on board the news therein.
How do I know which part is true, false, accidentally inaccurate, a particular journalist's/paper's perspective?

Your own news is generally far more important to you because it's just that, and if you're going through a bad patch then it becomes all-consuming.

The media will definitely report on whatever news is likely to shock or horrify the most. Ultimately, they want an audience, and whilst they have certain responsibilities towards that, as long as they are moneymaking organisations - which they all are bar none, then we will always see attention grabbing headlines.

I think its important to have an idea about what goes on in the world, as deeply distressed as I am by recent cases reported in the news. I think that its good to gain a bit of perspective, and to know and appreciate what we have.

I would like it much more if there was good news balanced with the bad. I may start buying a newspaper on a regular basis then.