It's not BAD news but bad stories about the news. Sometimes in writing it is impossible to place the emphasis where it should be so that is why I want to make it clear that I'm writing about bad stories as in poorly written or presented rather than stories that are about news that is bad.
Exactly what I'm talking about is stories that are headlined like this " Twin sisters are found at the bottom of a well". Your curiosity is peaked and you wonder how they got in the well, how old they were, and most of all, you wonder if they are okay, injured or deceased. You click on the headline to read the story and there, in all it's glory is the entire story: Twin sister are found at the bottom of a well.
Right above this story is a video and if you click to play this video you have to sit through a commercial and then some news reporter's talking head appears and in the background you see an out of focus video (ain't it fun watching a video of a video?) of an ambulance crew and police standing around and a woman crying on the shoulders of another woman and then the talking head says "Rescue workers at the scene where twin girls have fallen into a well. There are no details about the welfare of the girls."
Wow.
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