Is it a good thing that there is bad news on the TV news?
Because if there was good news on the news all the time, that would make it news, as if bad things happening were the norm. But good things happen all the time, and that's why they aren't news.
So you could possibly argue that it is good that bad things are on the news, because it makes them less usual events worth reporting. (I say less usual because yeah, I know, a lot of bad stuff happens.)
Yes, it's a simplistic idea, but it occurred to me to make some sort of sense, so I wrote it down. Took me two tries to write it in a way that wasn't completely nonsensical, but still. It's just an "at least..." kind of thought - at least terrible things aren't the norm, otherwise it would be good stuff that would be reporting on and considered "news".
The word news looks really weird to me now.
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