Rainbows and Sunshine

Sometimes I feel like I am trapped in an endless circle of dull news stories. Everyday, it seems as though I am only watching the news from the night before, or the night before that, or even last Tuesday evening’s broadcast. This web of tedium can become extremely frustrating for us civilians who are just waiting for new information ponder for a while. It is for this reason that I tend to watch more MTV, FX, and E!. They may not have the hard hitting news that will affect my life and deepen my understanding of the world, but at least I see something interesting.

For about the past three months the only news I have been hearing is Obama versus Clinton, and what sounds like their endless bickering. This was interesting at first because there is nothing I like more than a good cat fight between two prominent politicians who are supposed to be above that kind of nonsense, but even that can get a little old. The next most frequent story is recession. Are we in one or not? I can only take so much of this stock market jargon. Bears, bulls, dow, the list is an endless headache of words that mean nothing to me. And if I’m being honest, home foreclosures being on the rise is NOT considered a breaking news story anymore, sorry ABC. Finally, the war makes a constant appearance on the evening news. It isn’t even about changes in the status of the war, but another suicide bombing killing more and more people. I am not saying any of these matters are not important (except the not-so-racist remarks of some random lady. That doesn’t make my breaking news list). Obviously there are problems in the world, but I doubt it is impossible to find a really new news story every once in a while.

Not only is the news like a broken record, but it is such a downer. Sometimes I feel like the journalism world is trying to show us mere citizens the world is going to you-know-where. Like thrusting these depressing and sometimes infuriating stories into our homes morning, evening, and night, is somehow helping us become more aware of how bad the world is. I believe I am speaking for almost everyone when I say, we KNOW the world is screwed up. We knew it last night, last week, last year, and we will still know tomorrow. So all I am asking is that the news world gives us 1 day, just 1, to have the childish idea that maybe there is still a glimmer of hope for civilization. One day without bashing our politicians, learning of looming economic disaster, and death and destruction in other countries. Just one day with rainbows and sunshine.