Don't let it get ya.
The media learned a long time ago to appeal to people's lower nature. It peaks our curiosity, so we pick it up and read it ,or watch it in a movie or on tv. There is only one reason for it, $$$$. There are no true journalists, it's all about selling a negative story to make $$$. The result is a feeling of negativity about everything that goes on in our country and about ourselves. Politicans are personally attacked, relegion is bashed and everything that's good seems to be under attack. I really don't pay much attention to any of what is said by the pseudo intellectuals.
Meantime, good things are happening, people are helping others, but it all goes unreported. Just look what happens in this small S/B community when someone needs help. People respond imediately to help with unselfish motives. There are alot of good things happening and heroic acts in everyday life that go unrecognized and unrepoted by the media. There's no $$$ in it.
My issue is how this negativity affects our kids. They are bombarded with this negative stuff 24/7 and it is not giving them a true picture of what this life or our country is really about. I would not want to be growing up in the enviornment they have to live in.
Imho, the real enemy to our country is not so much from the outside, but from the moral decay inside. You can't have a generation of kids brought up with all this negativity and expect good things to happen. Best thing we can do for our kids is bring them up in a family atmosphere that will balance out the negative with the positive. I don't ever see the media, or anyone else doing it for us.