A Good Deed Deserves Publicity

I no longer watch the news on TV. I used to be a news junkie, I used to turn on the tube and flip around from CNN to MSNBC to ending my night with the local news. Those days are in now in the past.

I now only watch morbid shows such as CSI Miami, Nip/Tuck and my all time favorite, hope the season begins early, Rescue Me. I also enjoy CBS Monday night line-up of comedies, except for the odd show they always seem to stick in there, this season that show is the class.

Anyhow, I deviated from my main point here, the reason why I stopped watching the news is because there was nothing positive ever presented. There is only so much I can take about a CEO scamming its customers or his/her own company. Murders happened everyday, we should stop spreading the word about them and instead start doing something about it. The solution is not in putting fear into the communities, but in doing something about fixing the problem.

I read this blog entry today on the gadgets blog and it truly sounded like a great idea. Apparently David found this 30GB black iPod in one of his flights and decided to put up a blog post to reunite the owner of this expensive toy with the gadget. If you recently flew on United Airlines and lost your iPod, please visit this blog.

With so much negative news, it would be great if the networks did a cover on something like this.

The bottom line is that we are so obsessed with seeing others suffer that we forget the good we could provide to society. A lot of today's most popular shows are designed to attract the masses into seeing characters be conniving and ruthless. Reality shows are all the same and we tune week after week with great anticipation to find out who will be sent home next. I guess this is no different than living your life through others. I like my own life so I guess I'll stick to just getting the entertainment factor out of the tube.