at which point is good newsworthy? what makes bad newsworthy? it's just bad, and people want to hear about it. it's rare, so that makes it newsworthy. if we always heard about the good things in life, we wouldn't appreciate those things as much. so all that is wrong with the world and all that is good with the world filtered through media and eyes and ears, and the mind as that last minute, second, barrier through which information passes. value judgements, understandings, pieces of the whole, 50,000 mile high view, the big picture filled with dots, tiny little dots, or photographs, of the whole on the little, and that makes it something, real