Congratulations to the Republic of Ghana, in West Africa, for holding yet another free and fair election with minimal controversy, with no outside interference and marked by admirable conduct from the major candidates.
Thank goodness Ghana took its lessons in electoral democracy from Botswana and South Africa rather than Florida or Minnesota.
4 comments:
The problem with the news is their belief that the people of the world only want to here about problems.
Just maybe that is the problem.
You go Gaana!!
ladd5020,
That's kinda a self-fulfilling prophecy though.
We say we also care about hearing good news but they can tell by the minute by minute results from the ratings that (generally) when good news is shown, people tune elsewhere.
semi234,
I am not a sociologist, but I personally believe that we all need to be weaned off the constant main line media feed of meaningless sex and all acts of violence.
Simple thing like planting trees along a treeless block has a profound affect on crime and improving neighborly cooperation.
I believe when the President of the United States says that we are going to smoke out public enemy number one and kill him. Speaks volumes about whats wrong with the general mind set of America.
If we want to be just like the people of the middle east, instead of great peoples of the orient and India, we just need to watch the news, or better yet listen to AM talk radio to really feel the hate and pick a scape goat of the week.
Semi: I take your point, but I wonder how much is self-selecting. How much of what the situation you cite is down to the fact that many people are so disgusted by television news (the media you cite) that they don't bother to watch anymore. Therefore, the audience that's remaining is necessarily biased toward liking the bad news. If there were no market at all for good news, then newspapers and magazines would not include human interest stories. There was a story in today's local paper about a kid who spent a semester at sea, what he learned about other cultures, etc. I find that story far more interesting to read that a 13,290,130th analysis of what Obama might do when he takes office, let alone a 13,290,130th piece on the Israel-Gaza situation. I've actually stopped listening to even the BBC (temporarily) until that situation calms down because I quickly get tired of hearing the same things over and over and over.
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