Happy News

There was just a news story on The Today Show that made me think, "Why don't they do more happy news stories?" The story was about a white firefighter who had saved a little black baby from a house fire back in the 60's in an area where segregation and discrimination were rampant. When the rescue took place, there was a picture taken of the firefighter performing CPR on the baby. At the time, this picture made front page news. The baby was eventually put up for adpotion and her adoptive family showed her the picture and told her the story of her dramatic rescue. 40 years later, she is all grown up, she is married and has a family of her own...but all she really wants is to find the firefighter who saved her life. So she enlists the help of a newspaper reporter from the area, they track down the firefighter & a reunion takes place. HE remembered her & was thrilled that she wanted to meet him. What gets me about this story is that it's HAPPY. It's a HAPPY story. A feel-good story. And the reason I wish news-outlets would realize that the people want to hear HAPPY news is this: they ran this story on the front page of the paper and on the paper's website -- and the website received a RECORD number of hits...over 1.5 MILLION hits...for a HAPPY story! There's enough sadness and bad things happening in this world and it's my opinion that the newspeople need to realize that the American people could use some good, happy news!

Sorry if I misled you with the title - I personally don't have any "happy" news...I'm actually kinda ticked about something right now...but this thought process about HAPPY news was really on my mind today!