All we watch all day long are "anomalies" and bad acts

• Good news typically happens slowly. Bad things, car wrecks, murders take seconds to happen; 

• Horrible acts of violence come to define our outlook - how could they not? 

• The news is mostly negative. It’s hard, at times, not to feel like pain, trauma, difficult life experiences, and the actions of others are what define our reality. 

(Activity, show a negative political ad here) 

Negative political advertising nearly guarantees we think less of our leaders and less of ourselves.

Cable News Channels For example CNN on the far Left, and Fox News on the far Right tends to add fuel to the negativity fire which is already burning. 

Discuss.