observations

Surely the News Isn’t All This Bad

When I went online this evening, I checked out Google News, as I often do, just to get a handle on the major news of the day. Under the section for U.S. news, these are the headlines I was greeted with:

Violent deaths in Google News headlines, July 30, 2016.
Violent deaths in Google News headlines, July 30, 2016.

Only four headlines were provided under the U.S. news section and every one of them deals with violent death. It’s enough to make me want to crawl under a rock. Certainly there was some good news happening somewhere in the U.S. today.