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Death, murder, crime, disease, car wreck, genocide, discrimination, corruption .... blah, blah, blah. That' news. Want to predict the future? Copy this, write "News in 2030", stuff it in an envelope, and put it in a vault. Have your kids or grand kids open it in 2030. They’ll say “Yep, gramps got it right.”  Politicos on both the left and right agree on one thing -- bad news sells. Unfortunately, news functions mainly as a massive reality distortion machine. People complain about inaccuracy and fake news. True, but it's not the REAL problem. The damage comes from looking at everything from a  uniform perspective of societal failure.  For example, children fail a lot. That's how they learn. But they succeed a lot too, sometimes spectacularly. Want to crush a child's spirit? (or an adult's for that matter). Talk only about his failures.  All this is to say we have a responsibility to remember, every waking moment, that ...