Lighten Up! The News Isn't All That Bad!

[fencesitter]

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/11848328.htm



You're fretting again. I can see it in your eyes. You open your daily paper and the fidgets grab hold of you. You cruise for news on the Internet and you come back even more perturbed than when you left. You bounce from cable show to cable show in a never-ending search for ... what?

The problem, boys and girls, isn't with the news. The problem is with your approach to the news. Why worry? Why be dithery when dithery gets you nowhere? It's all in how you look at things.

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The United States is running the "gulag of our times," a human-rights group cries.

It's not as bad as all that, you reply. Occasional prisoner abuse, perhaps, but not a gulag. Well, OK then.

"We're caught in the middle of an Iraqi civil war," the Nervous Nellies shout.

It's not as bad as all that, you reply. Thousands of dead and injured, yes, but not a civil war - not yet. Well, OK then.

Feeling better?

I thought so.