While news outlets are certainly drivers of fatigue, readers are not entirely off the hook. Research shows that negative headlines have more than a 60 percent higher click-through rate than positive ones—à la the old trope, “if it bleeds, it leads.”

I always feel that there are way more bad news than good news until now. I made a tally of the posts on the homepage of Beehaw right now and registered 14 as positive, 10 as negative, and 15 as neutral wrt my stance. It just seems like I actively focus more on the bad ones. Maybe I will try reading more positive ones.

I recall a story - sigh, from Reddit - where a business owner tried to sell products online for lets say a flat $2.00 USD that includes tax, while his competitors were trying to sell similar for like $1.96 without tax included. He couldn't stay in business, b/c people just mindlessly sort by the lowest price & immediately went for that (years ago, before everything needs to be checked if it is a cheap knock-off).

I'm not saying that you can't fight the system, but it is hard - there is resistance. Stupidity is a real force of nature, as is greed, and self-centeredness, etc.

Which is all the more reason they need to be fought against - the mere act of going against them improves you, compared to just going with the flow.:-)

A community for it would be good

I read somewhere, that the solution is to follow all issues to the door. Discuss them when they are an issue, and then again when they are resolved.

Reasons to be Cheerful was founded by David Byrne to make more good news in the world. Would be a good source of articles for a “good news” community.

I claim this is at least partially because people look for good news:

Generally, if the news is already good, we're often satisfied with reading the title. If the news is bad, we go into the article to look for a silver lining.

I'm going to sound cynical here so if you don't want to be confronted with negative content, please skip this one...

Thank you. Occasionally, I find that I need to stop reading the news for a while because it’s all so bad. Sometimes, it’s even speculation about how something that isn’t a problem, but could end up being something to worry about. Ugh. Some positivity would be welcome!