What's good?

What's good? What's bad?

... How do we know?

It seems like the world is based off bad and good - the black and white of society.
The gray area in between is color that allows for a mix of both.

The media has to portray both good and bad without setting an agenda, but does it really do that?

The media tell good stories - the human-interest type that are flowery and uplifting - and the bad - the ones like the current Wall Street crisis that make you jittery and anxious.

But what about the good in the Wall Street crisis?

People have touched on the fact that it may clean up the American credit system, but I haven't seen a lot of media coverage about it. Isn't it good that Americans could realize their irresponsibility and turn it around?

Why isn't that angle being played up?

No matter how terrible of a story, shouldn't both sides be portrayed - good and bad?

Good and bad need to be in each story to make a piece well-rounded and not one-sided. I feel like that happens less and less.

The more and more I read, the more I get depressed.

The news has definitely instilled fear into the media consumer in me. And I don't think that is going to help the industry's revenue jump up, which needs to happen.

The bad is overtaking the good.

The media might say that's just what's out there today, but I don't believe that it's all bad even with the economic state the country is in right now.

Truth should remain the main objective of reporting, but isn't there a way to dig for the good and get both sides of the story?