Many bad news is false news.  Incorrect or assumed facts which turn out to be wrong when actually observed.  Here is a great site about optimism.  The Skeptical Optimist: More...

Our hearts go out to the people affected by Hurricane Katrina.  However, it shows that America has become a nation of whiny, dependant people.  The good news it that there is something we can do about it... More...

Why do we have to pay reporters extra to report the happy news?  More...

A great site: http://www.happynews.com/ 

CNN has become Cable Negative News and the Chaos News Network.  They exaggerate the bad news, and you can watch their slanted coverage change from hour to hour.  They are so hungry for dead bodies, they sued FEMA in order to show the bodies.   The good news it that there is something we can do about it...   More...

Does the media have a negative focus?

I found myself constantly bombarded with bad news.  I noticed a trend in the biased media, with reporting toward the bad news and turning everything into a "disaster". Why couldn't the story be written with a positive bias instead of a negative bias? Just for fun, I started revising stories with a focus on the positive rather than the negative. 

The original article was published June 4th 2004 on CNN.com 
The headline read:

Study: More young adults 'disconnected'
Many neither working nor in school, study says

Read the entire bad news article...

Using the exact same study and the exact same facts, this is how we thought the article could have been written with a positive viewpoint rather than a negative bias:

Study: American children are much better off. 
Fewer babies died in infancy, kids were less likely to live in poverty and fewer were dropping out of school.

Read the entire good news article...

Why we started the Pleasant News Service. There was much pleasant news in the article, but the editor or author chose to focus on the negative and always followed any pleasant news that was reported with something bad. If child advocates want to present the bad news to keep their programs running, we want to present the Pleasant News to show you that life is better off than is being reported by current media. You can feel better about what you have accomplished.

Finally... 
A balance to the disaster hungry news media.