I'm sure I'm not the only one who reads the papers and just feels depressed afterwards. Are they accentuating the negative for their own political purposes, or is Britain really that screwed up? It's getting so I can't face turning the page. Is there an optimistic newspaper out there? 
Quote: Bad dog @ February 13 2009, 11:57 AM GMTI'm sure I'm not the only one who reads the papers and just feels depressed afterwards. Are they accentuating the negative for their own political purposes, or is Britain really that screwed up? It's getting so I can't face turning the page. Is there an optimistic newspaper out there?
I ignore it all and keep moving on. 
Quote: Bad dog @ February 13 2009, 11:57 AM GMTI'm sure I'm not the only one who reads the papers and just feels depressed afterwards. Are they accentuating the negative for their own political purposes, or is Britain really that screwed up? It's getting so I can't face turning the page. Is there an optimistic newspaper out there?
Yes, we really are that f**ked.
(My personal prospects just seem to keep getting worse and worse.)
Quote: Aaron @ February 13 2009, 12:02 PM GMTYes, we really are that f**ked.
(My personal prospects just seem to keep getting worse and worse.)
Why?
As a (hopefully freelance) web developer, I really don't know how many small businesses and organisations will be wanting to relaunch their websites.
I'm sure many here will be glad to hear that I expect to be stacking shelves in Tesco.
Do you build websites?
From a purely short-sighted and self-centred point of view, the economic situation is actually pretty good. I'm in a recession-proof career with fixed salary increases, and if property prices fall a bit I might be able to actually afford to buy somewhere to live.
I know this is, as I said, both short-sighted and self-centred, but I'm not a bad person really... 
Quote: Bad dog @ February 13 2009, 11:57 AM GMTI'm sure I'm not the only one who reads the papers and just feels depressed afterwards. Are they accentuating the negative for their own political purposes, or is Britain really that screwed up? It's getting so I can't face turning the page. Is there an optimistic newspaper out there?
Good news doesn't sell. We are bombarded with news now. We now regularly hear, see and read, in detail and with images, of terrible things happening all over the world. In the past we would have only known about local events. The result is we are far more paranoid and believe the world to be far more dangerous and depressing than it actually is.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ February 13 2009, 12:18 PM GMTGood news doesn't sell. We are bombarded with news now. We now regularly hear, see and read, in detail and with images, of terrible things happening all over the world. In the past we would have only known about local events. The result is we are far more paranoid and believe the world to be far more dangerous and depressing than it actually is.
Yes Dolly you are sooooooooo right. On the rez I never knew anything about nothing and managed to not feel like chicken little. I live out in the world and see folks bombarded with news and ugly things.
I just keep doing my own thing.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ February 13 2009, 12:18 PM GMTGood news doesn't sell. We are bombarded with news now. We now regularly hear, see and read, in detail and with images, of terrible things happening all over the world. In the past we would have only known about local events. The result is we are far more paranoid and believe the world to be far more dangerous and depressing than it actually is.
Absolutely true.
Quote: Dr Mato @ February 13 2009, 12:13 PM GMTDo you build websites?
That is generally what a web developer does, yes.
Quote: Bad dog @ February 13 2009, 11:57 AM GMTI'm sure I'm not the only one who reads the papers and just feels depressed afterwards. Are they accentuating the negative for their own political purposes, or is Britain really that screwed up? It's getting so I can't face turning the page. Is there an optimistic newspaper out there?
It's not so much the bad news that happens, as if in isolation, by events outside our control, that's the problem, rather that those in senior positions of respectable authority are so out of control, (literally), that THEY cause the bad news.
When the bankers on the news were called to apologise the Guardian hired notable psychologist Oliver James to psychoanalyse their behavioural body language to see if they really were contrite. His analysis? They were not!
As a side note, he said this, (remember to all intents and purposes these people control our lives):
"The definitive study of senior business managers found they were more likely to suffer from several personality disorders, such as narcissism, than inmates at a secure mental hospital."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/11/psychologists-view-banking
Ban the news. All this news talk, they give the news and then tell you what they said over and over. Treats the viewer like a child.
Quote: Bad dog @ February 13 2009, 11:57 AM GMTI'm sure I'm not the only one who reads the papers and just feels depressed afterwards. Are they accentuating the negative for their own political purposes, or is Britain really that screwed up? It's getting so I can't face turning the page. Is there an optimistic newspaper out there?
I ignore it all now. Terrible it seems but I'm depressed enough without that. I'll watch the news and that's it.
I work in IT and the glass is neither half empty or half full. It just has redundant surplus storage capacity (which is a good thing).