Newspapers can be injurious...

...so says Times of India in a special report. The Sunday edition of Times of India reports that traditionally journalists and media agencies are facinated by negative news more than positive ones. Read the report here: Newspapers can be injurious to health The reports makes it plain clear and also gives the reason behind it (It's money, honey!) The selection of news, especially front-page news, is largely determined by the old journalistic axiom: Bad news sells better than good news. For instance, which headline would be seen to be a bigger attention-grabber: "200 killed in plane crash" or "Five new schools opened in Jharkhand"? This report makes it clear that journalists like seeing glass as half-empty rather than half-full. This approach may be proper in some cases of news reporting but they have huge potential to do extraordinary damage when an issue needs constructive journalism. Journalists need not always act as a critic; they need to be facilitators as well. So, next time you read anything in media, do your own due diligence and reasoning before accepting or rejecting the news. What does junta say?