20 August

It's liberating I think to stop seeing the news as a description of the world. The reason the news reads like the Apocalypse is the same reason the music industry pumps out pap artists now - both industries are collapsing. When you collapse, you titillate - try to seduce customers with cheap thrills. (I'm also not a fan of the idea of replacing 'bad news' with 'good news', because then you're still trapped in the illusion of the news being a description of the world.) Society is inventing new public spaces, much bigger than the media. FB, for example.