Only Bad News Are Good News?

While reading a text for one of my seminars, I came across the words “only bad news are good news”, and immediately asked myself whether this statement is true and why people seem to be so much more interested in bad news.

The Filter Bubble

Due to the massive amount of daily posts on Facebook and the limited time one spends online, it is sheer impossible to read or even look at every post. Thus, the platform selects which posts are shown and which stay hidden for the user. Even this being quiet obvious, it does not make most people…

How Memes Shaped the Presidential Election 2016

Give me money and I tell you the truth

On Wednesday 9 November The Guardian published an article by Lee Glendinning that also…

Think Positive, Not Negative!

Our daily life is concerned with so many negative things, that follow us all day long. The mass media is full of negative statements concerning, for instance, war or/and politics. Or they always deal with similar topics like sports or/and celebrities. To be honest, I am tired…

The News Media Coping with the New President-Elect

The US election made clear that the news media were not objective when it came to their favorite candidate. Of course, in America, the news networks don’t have to be objective. Furthermore, free speech is the highest good for news magazines…

“Internet research could be a real issue”

Since I am studying French to become a teacher, I have to read a lot about French history, politicians, musicians, authors, novels, theater, linguistics and many more. Lately I’m attending a class about linguistics, culture, and literature. It’s a class…

Is a Duck on a Plane Newsworthy?

A couple of weeks ago, I was watching CNN when I saw a story that did not really seem to fit in with the rest of the news. It was a story about a duck that flew on a plane. It turned out that the duck, Daniel Turducken Stinkerbutt, is a therapy duck that accompanied its…