Card 7 1 Do you prefer to keep up with the latest news? How? 2. Do you know anybody who has ever been on the news? What was the story? 3 Do the media concentrate too much on "bad news” and not enough on “good news stories? 4. What do you think about the future of mass media?

The story is in the telling of it. A major public

transportation overhaul is a "bad story" insofar as the

construction drastically alters a historic neighborhood

but a "good story" insofar as it meets people's current

needs in an environmentally sustainable way. Even

inherently bad news involving illness, violence, and so

on may have its story told with a forward-looking

"Where do we go from here?" The story doesn't pre-

exist in a good or bad format. Much of the

interpretation is created by the writer and then by the

reader.