The News Papers are Wrong

In the past the theory was that bad news sold newspapers, and at first glance it appeared to be the truth. My theory is that bad news may have spiked people's curiosity, sending them to the news stands of the past years, and to the internet in  today's digital information era. Many people rushed to the internet recently when the news about the ten year old boy recently found dead in the overgrowth of bush on St. Kitts appeared in the news, but was their curiosity peaked because it was bad news, or because they wanted to see if, by some remote chance, they may be familiar with the child or his family? Perhaps they wanted to see how familiar or unfamiliar they were with the  sufferers.
 What evidence is there to indicate that bad news will sell more news papers or drive more people to the on line news than good news might do? Who has measured and compared?
 We have good reason to believe that there is far more good news to report in St. Kitts and Nevis than bad. We can be reasonably certain  that there are far more people performing good deeds than evil ones, and there are many more lovable, peaceful and positive-minded young people on St. Kitts Nevis than  those who are so bad that they feel the need to expose their bottoms and boxer shorts, although it is making them walk with their feet wide apart like they carry half gallon sized water bottles trapped between their two legs.
 The churches are full of good young people who have never stolen a pencil and will never steal one. There are thousands of young men in St. Kitts and Nevis who have never gone, and will never go to Jail. Thousands more young men walk with their pants properly on their waits lines than those who walk the streets with their trousers sagging below their backsides, and there are far more young women who are not becoming teenage mothers than those who are; this is despite the sense that the number of teenage mothers is disturbingly too high in St. Kitts, particularly, as Nevis somehow still seems, up to this time,to have at least a thumb on its teenage and young adult social control button.
Good news sells too, but it cannot be sold in the manner that bad news is. No one has to sell bad news, just like no one has to plant weed in a garden of food. (I did not say Marijuana, I said weed-- which the Bible refers to as tares).
 Bad news grabs people's sense of curiosity because  people want to feel safe, and somehow or the other when we read bad news, it gives us this sense of assurance that we know why such a thing happened to this or that person, and it will not happen to us. So in some sense it is not the bad news that sells, it is the innate human desire for a sense of security, no matter how false, that draws us to the page with the bad news before we are drawn to any other page in the news paper in our hand or on the internet.
 The news reporters who have not taken photographs of the spanking new look of the high schools (such as The Washington Archibald High) and primary schools around St. Kitts, and of the round about being constructed at the top of  the Kim Collins Highway, as well as photos of the young girl from The George Moody Stuart School (otherwise known as The Factory School) who won the Courts-sponsored reading competition not long ago, are missing opportunities to give the nation some good news. There is more of it out there than bad ones, but if those who report news continue to hold to the erroneous idea that it is bad news that sells, they will never be able to appreciate just how terribly wrong they really are.