Dear Media,
I have always been a firm believer in, what we think about, talk about and put our attention to most, is what we will create for ourselves. Everyday, morning, noon, night and before bed, we the public are being bombarded with nothing but doom and gloom in regards to the worlds economic breakdown and bailouts. I get that the news needs to be reported and if I don’t want to hear it, turn it off. However, with this ongoing onslaught of the sky is falling the everyday person on the street is starting, if they haven’t already, to panic and worry over much of what is totally out of our hands. We’re tired of hearing how big business and financial institutions, all for the most part in the States, with the exception of the automakers in Canada, are being bailed out, while the CEO’s get to walk away with millions. It’s incredibly depressing. If they had managed the Company properly in the first place, with creative forward thinking, rather than lining their own pockets, these Companies wouldn’t need to be bailed out.
The media is an amazing and powerful tool. You talk. People listen. It doesn’t matter if it’s the whole story or even just one side of a story; people listen. People in general trust what you have to say, that’s why you win the awards you do, and therefore take the majority of what you as reporters have to say to heart
The media needs to lighten up a bit. These stories are overwhelming. People are afraid and when people are afraid they do stupid things. Making it all the worse. I work with ordinary people everyday. I hear it in the questions they ask and see the looks on their faces. I’m not saying don’t report what needs to be told, nor am I suggesting we put on rose coloured glasses. We just don’t need to hear it, day in and day out. The world is not all bad. Babies are still being born, the sun still shines, and we live in an amazing Country. I could list a million things to be glad about. I’m just asking, is it too hard to find something good to talk about? Surely not.
You may or may not believe everything on this planet is energy and that we are all connected. What we put out there is what we get back. Like does attract like. The more the media continues to harp on the world going to hell in a hand basket, the more energy you are putting into creating more of what we don’t want. The way I see it. The media as a group has the power to change the way the world thinks. If nothing else, lets at least balance it out.
Thank you for hearing me out.
Dawn Setter