Positive News Agency
Editors might agree with me. Then they would ask where positive stuff is to come from. Negative stuff comes easily from the police or the law courts. But where is the source of positive stuff.
So my suggestion is that someone sets up a 'Positive News Agency'. This would be a news agency like Reuters. It would collect positive news and make it available on demand.
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Permalink Reply by Franis on -
There is already positive news that comes forward here and there currently. What if there was a special tag or signal or border for the "good" news if it can't be organized all on one page or section? In printed media and now that colors are common in newspapers, perhaps colored borders could signal that this particular news is a "positive" emotional content news item.
There could also be a section of newspapers devoted entirely toward "Uplifting" subjects, as there are the Comics, Home, Classified, Travel, Obituary, etc. sections.
For instance, positive news sections that were already existing could be renamed or expanded. There could be the...
"Charming" section (about cute animals and notable youngsters;)
"Sentimental" section (celebrating things such as weddings, anniversaries and other successful relationship topics. This is why something like People Magazine had such success.)
"Unusual" section (a "WOW, look at this!" Obviously, has been done already,)
"Bragging" section (about business successes, creative ideas, maybe a "hints" section for various things like how to fix cars or sewing machines, a section featuring coaches or career counselors & genius stories, etc.)
"Biography feature" section telling about interesting people and what they have done or are about to do.
Perhaps the comic section could be expanded to include joke contests, biographies of comics, articles on how to be funnier, describing the uniqueness of various kinds of a sense of humor... Collections for new "clean jokes" suitable for family readership...
...I'm sure people here would have more suggestions... One of these at least might be interesting enough for a newspaper to be syndicated... I'm sure that there are lots of writers out there who would love to write a column of "positive news" that could become notable enough.
If risking readership is an issue for newspapers, perhaps a positive news syndicate could have already gained the sponsorship of a corporate advertiser who would foot the bill for the paper to carry more positive items?
Yellow Hat for having these sections grouped together:
So if someone was in the mood for only "good news" on a particular day, they could scan a newspaper or news service for those particular stories that had that tag or printed border that signaled it. If a person had read a quota they had set themselves of when they had read enough negative news, they could then finish off their daily reading with "good news" items to set the emotional tone for their day.
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Permalink Reply by Phil Bachmann on -
Super post, Franis.
I'm very impressed.
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Permalink Reply by Peter Gluck on
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There are many such "agencies" - Gimundo is the first to come from my memory. Many of them are extinct. It is quite difficult to gather positive news outside technology (applicative science) and art. In politics, everyday events- null happenings take the role of positive news- war was finally not declared, genocide was avoided, X was not killed by a bravo and so on. Real positive news are rare..Trying to find examples- great effort!
In the Roamanian parliament two guys have tried to make a law that obliges mass media to give 50% negative and 50% positive news. The result, you can guess- was failure.
The lion's part of the so called news are about (CENSORED!) celebrities- these news are not good, not bad, they are essentailly stupid.
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Permalink Reply by William Jack Jordan on -
Angela King said:How much is it !!
Kim Jones said:Thinking Training said:If we all communicated by universally understood "code" would we become rather humourless robotic-types?"
Not unless we were also zombies without self-referential awareness. A bleak world it would be indeed without humour, much of which arises from things you describe such as the way the mind gives up sometimes on auditory patterns it fails to recognise.
We could a have a "Humour code." Humour codes would signal that what follows is a leg pull, for the sheer fun of a leg pull. Somehow, I fear that this might spoil the humour though? Why I rarely use smilies and other emoticons, because - pratfalls of email acknowledged - if you have to tell someone you are using humour then it kind of weakens the effect, doesn't it? Surely jokes work most effectively when they detonate suddenly, like a landmine, or a wet fart during hymn-singing in church?
"Emma Chissett?" the woman said to the sales assistant
"No, my name's Sally. I don't think we have an Emma here."
"No - Emma Chissett!?" the woman faintly demanded once again this time pointing to a book.
"Umm....nooo, that book is by Emily Dickenson"
"Emma Chissett???" the woman this time seemed quite frustrated
What was the woman saying?
I have heard this woman who taking in the Strine language.
She was from the land of
terror souses
Gloria Sara Titch
egg nishes
etc.
Popular phrases include:
gunga din
aorta
zarf trawl
etc.
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Permalink Reply by Franis on
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I have just personally met a person who has started a National Positive News service. I told them about this website, so we'll see if they turn up here and explain themselves so we can support their fledgling efforts!
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Permalink Reply by B Ashley on -
I presume she is saying "How much is it?" I love things like this. It's what we used to call Chinese Whispers which isnt meant to be derogatory. It's simply that the English ear has problems tuning into Chinese and hearing the correct words.
The famous example of Chinese Whispers is during a battle when a general had led his soldiers up a steep cliff behind their enemy in complete silence and sent the message back whispered from man to man "Send reinforcements. We are going to advance", and by the time it reached the end of the line it had become "Send three and fourpence. We're going to a dance."
William Jack Jordan said:Angela King said:How much is it !!
Kim Jones said:Thinking Training said:If we all communicated by universally understood "code" would we become rather humourless robotic-types?"
Not unless we were also zombies without self-referential awareness. A bleak world it would be indeed without humour, much of which arises from things you describe such as the way the mind gives up sometimes on auditory patterns it fails to recognise.
We could a have a "Humour code." Humour codes would signal that what follows is a leg pull, for the sheer fun of a leg pull. Somehow, I fear that this might spoil the humour though? Why I rarely use smilies and other emoticons, because - pratfalls of email acknowledged - if you have to tell someone you are using humour then it kind of weakens the effect, doesn't it? Surely jokes work most effectively when they detonate suddenly, like a landmine, or a wet fart during hymn-singing in church?
"Emma Chissett?" the woman said to the sales assistant
"No, my name's Sally. I don't think we have an Emma here."
"No - Emma Chissett!?" the woman faintly demanded once again this time pointing to a book.
"Umm....nooo, that book is by Emily Dickenson"
"Emma Chissett???" the woman this time seemed quite frustrated
What was the woman saying?
I have heard this woman who taking in the Strine language.
She was from the land of
terror souses
Gloria Sara Titch
egg nishes
etc.
Popular phrases include:
gunga din
aorta
zarf trawl
etc.
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Permalink Reply by Sinclair McLay on -
If we are addicted to bad news - there's no news like bad news - then a positive news outlet/agency may be a step too far. (Yes we may well be that degraded!)
So how about a halfway house - PMI News?
PMI News would carry not just positive, but minus and intersesting aspects of the topics of the day. (One proviso might be that finding the immediate positive in henious or tragic stories may be insensitive)
Following the 30 min PMI News how about a 30 min Six Hat on any topic- or topics - covered or point raised. Could be interesting!
Of course OPV springs to mind as well - Dennis you're in the tool shed (!) - anything else that could be added without over complicating?
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Permalink Reply by Gijs van Beeck Calkoen on -
And now for the good news...
Tired of all the doom and gloom that that surrounds us these days? Here, Odesheds light on all of the positive things that are being reported on around the world. Click hereto receive these stories via email on a daily basis.
From: Ode Magazine - the online community for Intelligent Optimists
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Permalink Reply by Gijs van Beeck Calkoen on
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Could the thinkers of " Positive News Agency" help us to writing a e-book "Exploring the Six Thinking Hats" by doing some thinking:
The question is that, if we have a complicated situation, AND we have decided to use the Six Hats framework AND we have decided that right now we will put on our Yellow Hat. What questions arise about the kind of thinking the Yellow Hat should provoke, and pitfalls in it?
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Permalink Reply by Gijs van Beeck Calkoen on
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Permalink Reply by Kim Jones on
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Definitely a site to bookmark and return to often. Excellent, Gijs. Some of the new schemes in the US for people in the retirement age group to avoid defining the golden years as endless rounds of golf and Saturday night bingo tournaments struck me as worthwhile. How to redesign yourself for increasingly competitive employment purposes in an ageing and ageist society.
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