In one of my classes today, we watched a film about a flood in Thailand that splits a family of five apart. It was emotional and thrilling. However, what makes me wonder is why we watched this film today. The class is a seminar about popular culture. The reason we watched this film is because we are discussing the wide interest of disasters and catastrophes that people seem so glued onto in social media.
It's interesting how the news is just filled with news about a ferry sinking outside South Korea or that a Malaysian airplane has vanished. The news stays on this news about death and bad things that happen to people. The news of the Malaysian airplane stayed on the news until the ferry sinking happened. It seems in the trend that one disaster cannot be stopped in the media until another disaster happens.
It's sad that what makes the big news really is only these major events that are horrid and terrible. Murder, disaster, and Justin Bieber getting arrested. Where is there any good news in this world? Are we really a world that is hungry for news on things that are negative? Do we like to hear bad things?
It's important that we know about bad events (although a pop star getting arrested should not have gotten as much news over a political leader talking), but isn't it okay that we hear any good? Why is the bad always highlighted over the good?
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