Anybody notice that if you post bitching or catastrophe on DU

[saracat]

there are tons of replies but if you praise anything, especially the Campaign , the thread is dead? So how are we being different than the media we criticize in that respect? If it bleeds it leads( A Fox reporter told me that is required of their local reporters!)

[murielm99]

1. You are going to have to rephrase that into a complaint.

I am waiting to see if anyone else responds.

:eyes:

[saracat]

2. Tee ! Hee! Hee!

Cute!

[T Town Jake]

3. Yep...sad but true...it's human nature to slow down...

...on the highway to look at a car crash. Even if it's not really anything more than a minor fender-bender...

[Swamp Rat]

4. Are you bitching? Otherwise I won't respond.

[still_one]

5. There are positive directions now being taken by Kerry

but how come they are drowned out by the right wing neo-con HATE MACHINE?

[REP]

6. "If It Bleeds, It Leads" Has Been Around Forever

It predates Fox.

[saracat]

7. I'm sure it does but Fox made it an art form!

[AmyDeLune]

8. Very True...sadly

When was the last time you saw a news article in print or on TV saying something nice about anybody? The media seems to be convinced that no one will be interested in positive news.

[Rabelais]

9. Positivity is only interesting if

it is creative.
Most people(unlike saracat) are too lazy to put effort into creativity.

[telamachus]

10. If this thread gets

a lot of posts , does that answer your question?

[Cuban_Liberal]

11. The 'sink like a stone' phenomenon.

Hardly anything is more discouraging than posting something well-researched and polished, only to see it sink like a stone in favor of some "Golly gee! Look at what the dickheads at FR are saying!" type posts. It's a sad, but predictable occurrence here at DU...

:wtf: