I dont know how many read this remarkable news - http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/south-korean-president-donates-millions-20090706-da9v.html
Great news as these are normally sent to the back pages - almost as if good news are irrelevant to the Press folks who want to remain almost totally in the grips of the sleaze and squalid. Human nature is one which is naturally benevolent, visionary and farsighted - the environment, pressure, competition and circumstances dulls the edges and makes it more malevolent than it actually is. I think the Press has an essential role to play in popularizing the good side of us - decreasing its almost obsessive interest in crime, politics and sensationalism. If you look at the front pages of any newspaper, the headline news are almost always sensational and negative...why cant we have such a news as the headline? Why cant the newspapers be filled with positive news and banish the negative ones to the back pages? I wonder - but then I am not a newspaper man...
Perhaps, we can revert back to the tradition of India's national newspaper - The Hindu which was the only newspaper not to carry news of Gandhiji's assassination on its front pages - because it then used to solely publish advertisements on its front page
Interesting, indeed.
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