”No news is good news” - because good news “isn’t news.”“Gospel” means “good news” - and the gospel is 2000 years old (lacking a decade or so).
My sister-in-law questioned me as to why I don’t follow the news on TV. She’s conservative, and she believes that she can see through the liberal tripe on the news. My answer:
The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral SentimentsI don’t listen to "the news” because it is produced, directed, and articulated by propagandists. Therefore the most I can hope would be to be so insightful that I successfully discount everything that I hear when listening to the news. So why bother?I read FR. The significant news, mostly, is posted here - along with commentary from conservative FReepers. That commentary, in which I participate, enables us to pool our “incredulity” so that, collectively, we are significantly less vulnerable to “the natural disposition . . . to believe.”
In reality there is an abundance of good news on TV - in the form of commercials which praise the qualities and low prices of the goods on offer. Is that what you mean?
Many news articles are easily refuted these days by commenters.
In reality - apart from Tim Cook’s lamentable diversion of my (as an AAPL shareholder) money and influence to personal causes with which you and I disagree -Apple’s news conferences have traditionally been “good news” announcements.That is really what you most like to ping out.
: ) Thanks for the ping. Great post.