Are you fed up with negative spin in mainstream media, or is it just me?

[heliumclub]

So, is it just me or have you had enough of negative stuff being reported in the "mainstream" media, and is it effecting your clients, friends, associates, and the likes? Are their others out there that have had enough too?

Only last week John Duct wrote about how over the last six months in America, large businesses have lost more than 170,000 jobs whilst small businesses saw over 2000,000 jobs created during that same timeframe. Why isn't this type of information finding its way into mainstream? 28,000 jobs alone in September were created - this is the stuff to brag about. As the owners of small and medium sized businesses we are the ones with the capability to transform this economy. To make a real difference, because we are agile, we are efficient and most of all, we are EFFECTIVE!

I believe in order for businesses to keep their edge, they have to gain insight into their changing environments, those that do, come out of the recessions as winners. Walt Disney, Microsoft and Hewlett Packard were started and rose through the ashes of bad times. It can be done to a large scale, that much is apparent.

We have two choices in times like this. Either we can embrace our reality, find the facts, be bold, stay in the game, and stretch ourselves. The other choice, well that doesn't bare thinking about for me..... which is to focus purely on reducing costs, battening down the hatches, and hoping that by the time the storm has past people will find out that they are ok, or what they are left with they can build something from.

Due to our frustration of the negative talk we went on to take the next step and did some digging to understand why "bad times" are actually "good times". Because lets face it, its not the first time we have hit a recession and we tend to, as a whole, come out of them the other side even if it is not as the same as we went into them.

We are now on a bit of a mission, to buck the trend and spout the positive stuff to keep people focused on the long term and hopefully challenge the medias short-termism.

Does anyone else have some interesting positive facts that buck the trend?

[jamesbiggin]

why print good news or make something out that is good - when they can spin everything bad and make us buy more papers, tune into more news reports...
I know this seems silly....but you never get a happy Eastenders Christmas....it is the same...we sit up and take note when there is something to worry about!!!!