Quote Originally Posted by Redleg
Journalism needs to be balanced - not only reporting the bad news - but reporting all the news of the day. Modern Journalists often focus more on negative news - then telling all the news.
Journalists also need to get paid, and their employers need to sell magazines, newspapers, click-throughs, whatever. And the public has never shown much interest in how many trucks on the highway didn't explode, nor in how many fathers didn't come home and slaughter their entire families.

Demanding that the newsies report all the good news to counterbalance the bad is against human nature. People want to hear about the gory stuff. Admittedly, they also want to hear about Brad and Jennifer ... oh, wait, I suppose that counts as gory stuff too ...