Reporting the Good News

Inter­est­ing idea, but I can see why peo­ple became upset or appeared dis­be­liev­ing. They weren’t get­ting *real* good news, but fake news, and were under­stand­ably dis­ap­point­ed. Mess­ing with peo­ple’s heads does­n’t make them hap­py, or hope­ful; it just adds to their sense of dis­en­fran­chise­ment. There are plen­ty of real “good news” resources, includ­ing:
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/
and http://www.happynews.com/, to name just two. And The Greater Good pro­vides exten­sive research, news and infor­ma­tion along a tru­ly pos­i­tive vein: http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/ So there’s no rea­son to make up good news and then mock peo­ple for not being hap­py when they read it, when there’s plen­ty of real and tru­ly uplift­ing good news they can be learn­ing about, ben­e­fit­ting from and actu­al­ly enjoy­ing.

Not to men­tion the “good news” is a mas­sive increase in gov­ern­ment spend­ing and reg­u­la­tion

That was some BS. Fake news is nev­er news. I can only imag­ine hav­ing a child actu­al­ly fight­ing in the war and read­ing that and the feel­ing of hap­pi­ness which leads to grief when you find out some jerk just made stuff up because he want­ed a laugh. Smar­tass cyn­ics are not wel­come and they are not help­ful to any real cause.