A thought. For years the News has only reported on events that were absolutely extraordinary. Events of massive significance because they were incredibly unusual; plane crashes not car crashes, terrorist attacks, not ongoing civil wars, earthquakes not cancer deaths. We knew that the news wasn't the real world, it was deviations from the real world. We didn't use it to judge the feeling of the world. Somehow the last few years the news seems more every day, weather events, health events, politicians screwing up, theatres closing, sports, celebrity culture, etc. I wonder if we now subconsciously think the news is a window onto the world, it's not the remarkable things, it's the pulse on the world. Is it this which is creating such a pervasive sense of hopelessness and fear and that somehow things are worse than ever. …see more