CHRIS’S GOOD NEWS BLOG

This is a “good news Blog” and the good news is at the end of the posting.

Why is it that whenever you watch the news on TV or read it in the newspaper it is all doom and gloom?
Why is it that when there is a plane crash it is reported that 50 people were killed when there were 150 survivors. Surely the most important part of the story should be that 150 people survived.
The same thing happens with all sorts of disasters. All the press seems to want to do is tell us the worst news.
I was at an airport a few years ago where, the day previously, an aircraft had taxied off the runway and got stuck in the grass. No-one was hurt and all the passengers were taken by bus to the terminal and their flight was re-scheduled for the following day.
Many of these passengers were placed on the same flight as me and, of course, the press was there in force to get a story.
They interviewed several people from the flight near to me and although they were informed by them that there was no panic on board, still persevered to find any case of screaming passengers praying in their seats. They tried to “make news” out of what, in fact, was a minor incident.
We see this all the time. They ask stupid questions that the viewer or reader already knows the answer to. An example would be when they ask someone who has just seen their loved ones killed “How do you feel”? Absolute stupidity and lacking any discretion. I eagerly wait for the day when someone replies “How the hell do you think I feel” and
punches them in the nose.

The worry is that, with takeovers, fewer and fewer people control the media and therefore have the power to control even governments and who governs.

How it works.
1. The press sniffs a story.
2. The press convinces the people it is fact.
3. The people pressure the politicians.
4. The politicians are forced to act.

All this “making of the news” is getting to the point where it is totally irresponsible.
An example would be the so called “bird flu pandemic”. The death toll worldwide amounted to less than a thousand but it was hyped up so much by the press that millions of people around the world were convinced that the end of civilization was near. Governments around the world wasted millions of dollars on medications to fight it. These millions of dollars could have been better spent on other, more important things. It was “the power of the press” that persuaded them into believing the worst.

It was the press that convinced the world that aircraft would fall from the sky at the turn of the millennium and that even your toaster would stop working.
Even though ALL the experts around the world debunked the claims the press continued their tirade causing undue worry for thousands, if not millions, worldwide.

The worst example of this power is the unbalanced reporting of so called “global warming”. This is being hyped up to an alarming extent. Of course there is no story in reporting that all is well with our planet even though the number of scientists that support the “global warming” theory is vastly outnumbered by those that dispute it. Some people have made fortunes from this myth. It has been claimed that the sea level will rise 10 or 20 metres depending who you listen to. This has been proved to be impossible, by the majority of mathematicians, as there is insufficient total moisture on the planet for this to happen.
Does the press report this, together with the fact that the planet has been cooling for the last decade? No, this would NOT be news. The whole world has been dragged into the story as they all want to be seen as the good guys. One day someone will see that “the emperor has no clothes”.
What a great day it will be when you can actually turn on the news and actually get some.

The good news.

1. The planet is cooling and the global warming myth will be eventually exposed.
2. After all the hype the planet is, at least, a cleaner place to be.
3. The people are slowly “waking up”.
4. Bird flu did not wipe out mankind.
5. Aircraft did not “fall out of the sky in 2000 and your toaster still works.

Another bright pair decided that one would break into a local factory and the other would pick him and the stash up later. The one in the factory set of the burglar alarm and was promptly grabbed by police at the scene. While police were talking to him he got a text message saying “r u reddy 2 b picked up.” Police sent back “yup come and get me” and waited.. A few minutes later they arrested the other “bright spark”.

A bright spark stole a truck in my city yesterday and wondered how
police caught him within an hour……..
Isn’t GPS wonderful?

When a snail crossed the road, he was run over by a turtle.

“You see, it all happened so fast.”

The patient says, “Give me the bad news first!”
Doctor replies, “You’ve got AIDS.”
“Oh, no! What could be worse than that?” asks the patient.
“You’ve also got Alzheimer’s Disease.”
Looking relieved the patient says, “Oh…Well, that’s not so bad. At least I don’t have AIDS.”

If Jacinda could make somebody’s Christmas it would be with a sweet smelling posy and a smile.

The 18-year-old plans to deliver more than 60 of both to patients at Tauranga Hospital tomorrow , after winning an international competition through the organisation HelpOthers.org.

The online site asked for ideas on how you should help others with US$100 ($181).

“My wish was to give out small posy bunches to patients in hospital on Christmas Day,” she said.

“I was in no way expecting to win. There was a huge long list on the website of everyone else’s ideas .

.. and I thought ‘what’s something different, or something nice?”

I work as a hospital orderly/porter/attendant or whatever they are called in your part of the world.
In the course of my work I see many sights, both good and bad, on a daily basis but some stick in my mind and will stay with me forever. Here is my latest “magical moment” just a few days before Christmas.

A young man in his late teens arrived at the hospital after a terrible car crash which had left him with severe head injuries. The team in the emergency department did a magnificent job, stabilizing the young patient and eventually he was admitted to the Intensive care unit where he spent several weeks in a coma.
Eventually he had recovered sufficiently to be woken up and after another few days was deemed ok for transfer to a general ward.
After a few more weeks of treatment he slowly became more aware and responsive and a positive outcome was expected.

One day, as I walked into the ward I noticed a lot of people, including the young man’s family, standing in the corridor outside his room. I asked one of the nurses what was happening. She told me to quietly wait and see.

After a few minutes the young man was wheeled into the corridor in his wheelchair by a physio and the brakes were applied. The silence in that corridor was deafening. Family, nurses, doctors and I, had all stopped what we were doing and watched.
The young man, with the help of the physio then slowly got to his feet. After a few moments he asked the physio to let go. He took a deep breath and then took his first few, faltering steps since the accident.
The smile on his face was incredible and truly a thing to remember forever.
The reaction of the family and all the onlookers was unbelievable.
Firstly there was a quietness from everyone as they willed him on, then the smiles as he started to move and then, of course the applause, the cheers and finally the tears of joy. Not a dry eye in the house.
He still has a way to go for full recovery but has passed a major milestone on the journey.
I love my job and have many memories of the past and, hopefully, many to come in the future but this is one magical moment that I will take with me to the grave.
As his mother said to me later, Christmas is a few days early this year..

Have a great Christmas everyone and please, drive carefully.