Is it just me or is the doom and gloom stuff starting to get downright annoying?
Love to know how you are seeing the reporting in your local area ...
Here in Vegas the media is still trying to find every negative story they can about the so called recession that most of us who know what we are doing have chosen not to participate in.
National media seems to be about half and half, let me know how the media is in your market.
Thanks ... Brad Sugars
It’s not just you! Same here in California & No Nevada. Of course CA does have some issues – state budget being a big one.
Totally agree. The media need a story and even swine flu or Michael Jackson cant hold their attention for long. We need more stories about the people who are succeeding so we can build everyone’s confidence and start to move forward
Here in France we have the same factor with the enhancing factor,: the French people love to complain, so it’s just a festival, even good news appears to be bad.
The media can’t get out of its own way when it comes to bad news. It would appear that the media has gotten into the habit of talking to themselves about themselves – in other words, given all the layoffs and closing of traditional media outlets they have let their own perspective cloud the reality of good things happening in the world. Sad, isn’t it?
Unfortunately good news doesn’t sell many newspapers. Although one of the radio stations here in Edmonton keeps airing spots from different companies that say they haven’t experienced the recession.
The media are really part of the whole problem, if businesses can focus on doing what they do best and ignore the negativity, we would all be getting on better.
I run a small advertising agency in Belfast and we’re finding the positive effects of the downturn as we can make a positive impact on businesses needing to articulate their brand messages. I think though that many small businesses that are B2B orientated, are put off by engaging with others because primarily of the ‘hype’ of the downturn and not the actual economics.
Maybe that’s just me… ?
Chris.
I’m finding it’s not so bad in OZ
This was in the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday. What we resist persists.. let’s encourage people to pay attention to the good news. At the end of the day, people DO prefer good news over bad. This change is so good! Like a big cleanse
http://business.smh.com.au/business/this-recession-isnt-looking-as-bad-as-we-feared-20090712-dhd2.html?sssdmh=dm16.386516
Hi Brad,
Yes, Irish media are still full of doom and gloom! There is a hugh frenzie of negative articles about ‘Gov investments to keep the banks afloat’, ‘more cuts expected in Gov spending’, ‘job losses’ etc. I heard a radio feature recently about negative media reporting and in one day, the business reports main feature was that 50 jobs lost in one company – at end of the same report – there was a snippet about 200 jobs being created elsewhere. Case in point!
The first time buyers are now buying which at least is producing some positive news.
The Irish media are for the most part loving the whole “R” word, but why wouldn’t they, its business porn.
I for one ignore it, self fulfilling prophecy and all that.
In India, the media is positive & reports of turnaround in the economy & new investments coming up are there. However, concerns of recession in the western world does crop up in the media.
I’ve noticed some of the news media – particularly the BBC – are trying hard to show some balance, but just can’t quite pull it off. It all tends to fall to bits the minute they invite phone-in contributions when the misery-lovers and misery-seekers are finally spurred into Action.
Anyway, saw a great one on the BBC news last night – the Economics Editor doing a split-screen argument with herself over the state of the economy : one half doom and gloom, one half more positive commentary. a fascinating experiment in observing that only 7% of communication is the words we use… I don’t have much doubt which side of the divide the viewing majority fell.