Friday, June 13, 2008
The antidote for pessimism
Gregg Easterbrook offers a welcome antidote to national pessimism. Since I tend to see even mostly empty glasses as close to full, I am, of course, attracted to his argument. And he blames the media, which is also good.
CWCID: Glenn Reynolds.
2 Comments:
By 
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Sat Jun 14, 09:23:00 AM:
TH - this is a regular argument I make to anyone that will listen. About a year ago the WSJ wrote an article about how much safer our children are now then they were even 10 years ago (forget about 20, 30 or 40+ years ago.) However, the main stream media now shows every child abduction to the full hilt, which has brougtht he absolute number down to a handfull of kids (under 1,000.) While 20 years ago, 5 times that many kids were abducted. Childhood diseases that claimed the lives of so many are down by factors of 2X to 3X over the past 20 years. Literally, every meaningful statistic for our kids health and well being is going in the right direction (except for obesity.) However, you would never know that based on the msm.
I think this same bias plays into our country's well being as well. I almost wonder if after the day Obama gets elected, the MSM will all of a sudden start believing the sun will come up again..?
By 
Gammer Gurton, at
Sat Jun 14, 01:39:00 PM:
The cartoon by Chad Crowe, which appears in the WSJ link, is very good. I suggest keeping this one around and putting it in subsequent posts on Donk politics.
