Good News for the New Year
thanks to Joe Clasen for pointing this item out
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2004: The Good News
Thursday, December 30, 2004
By Radley Balko http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,142872,00.html
Every year as we approach the end of December, major media outlets compile lists of the year’s top stories.
Television news stations compile poignant montages of the past 12 months. Inevitably, these images are tragic—images of war, crime and natural disaster set to pensive music, only occasionally interrupted by shots of the team that won the Super Bowl, the World Series, or every four years, pictures from the Olympics.
That’s to be expected, of course. No news, as they say, is good news. Good news also tends to happen gradually, which makes it less conspicuous. Bad news happens in clumps. It makes itself known. In just a few hours, a hurricane or an earthquake can wipe out thousands of homes and businesses. The prosperity, wealth and rise in standard...