**Title: The Power of Good News: Uncovering the Hidden Progress of Humanity**
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Welcome to this special TED Talk broadcast, where journalist Angus Hervey reveals the remarkable advancements humanity has achieved in areas such as environmental protection and public health over the past year. In a world filled with doom and gloom stories, Hervey calls for a change in the narratives we tell ourselves, emphasizing the importance of sharing stories of possibility and hope.
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Why is good news so rare? In a special broadcast from the TED stage, journalist Angus Hervey sheds light on some of the incredible progress humanity has made across environmental protection, public health and more in the last year, making the case that if we want to change the story of humanity this century, we have to start changing the stories we tell ourselves. “When we only tell the stories of doom, we fail to see the stories of possibility,” says Hervey.
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Conflict sells
Bad news is horribly reported also. Media is a PROFIT driven industry.
I’ve been wondering why news doesn’t do this when the news shouldn’t have the need to be popular or focus on views. We will always need the news and so it basically has the best job security out there but they act as though that’s not the case
So true!
Much of the media has become political-economic gossip columns and guessing games (he said, he said, we predict), with some sport and violence thrown in.
Almost nothing of fundamental importance to our lives and our planet is discussed, and well researched fact based reporting is rare.
This video only has 60k views in two weeks. Hardly anything. That should tell you how interested in good news MOST people are. Regardless of a few positive comments here.
Such an important message. Especially at the ending statement!
Because "facts" don't care about your "feelings" and your "feelings" don't care about "facts"… let that sink in and you will have the answer to the title of this video… your welcome.
This would make life better and more opportunistic.
But that is Not what the media wants for society and its people.
(Most) of the legacy media are against us.
"Why are we so bad at reporting good news" well, apparently because people despise good news, judging by the fact TED's 23m subscribers only watched this talk 55k times in the 10 days since it's been out
Brilliant, well done Angus Hervey. A fascinatingly hopeful insight to all that is wrong with the current news channels. I have subscribed to Future Crunch and look forward to hearing so much more positivity. Delivered in an excellent style keeping me enthralled. Thank you Angus and hoping to meet you again soon; what a refreshing change.
Thank you ❤
Wonderful TED talk.
thank you so much for your ongoing work, reading your newsletter through the years has kept me aflot in a world of bad news, so glad your owkr is getting wider and wider recognition and much needed visibility!
clap! clap! clap! Way to close at the end, too! (let's quicken the pace and make it a recurring show)
Loved it! But he didn't answer the question at all, did he? And without answering it very compellingly, and, on the basis of that answer, coming up with counter-measures, is it likely much will change?
Most people live in fear so they like to watch all paranoid stuff. Thus they are served low level stuff.
Love your Future Crunch website / emails – thank you
'Good' news also means: good reporting on bad news…
Yessss 🙌🏻 I now wish Angus could perform all the future crunch newsletters with graphics and videos and a live audience. How charming. How crucial. Keep up the great work, my friend 💜
Well done mate! keep up the good work, we need the good news 🙂
got nothing more to say. This is exactly what we need right now. Thank you so much for this uplifting talk!
Not having all the answers is no excuse to do nothing. Thanks for the hopeful reminder that some have decided to begin somewhere to do something.
Hmmm…could have been less dry and more celebratory. Not compelling for anyone not already in the choir.
Maybe part of the reason for bad news is Angus headlines with Chinese Communist propaganda.
China burns more coal a year than the rest of the world… combined, is committing genocide, buys cheap oil from Russia, and has net zero targeted for 10 years after everyone else. Positive is great but not if it's useful idiocy.
👏👏👏 freakin incredible Angus. Brilliantly delivered and inspiring and uplifting as always!