BigShinyThing

Stateside, the right wing news site Happy News will only report on the postitive side of everything. The Happy News credo runs:

“Real News, Compelling Stories, Always Positive” is what you’ll find on HappyNews.com. We believe virtue, goodwill and heroism are hot news. That’s why we bring you up-to-the-minute news, geared to lift spirits and inspire lives. Add in a diverse team of Citizen Journalists reporting positive stories from around the world, and you’ve got one happy place for news.

Some typical headlines read, “The good news about Katrina”, “Brother gets crocodile to release girl”. It will be interesting to see how they cover the “inevitable” Bird Flu pandemic.

In the UK, The Independent ran an unusually upbeat front cover this week: “Multicultural Britain - an unlikely success story.” And weather reports have apparently been ordered to look on the bright side - literally. The Daily Telegraph reports that the Meteorological Office has issued guidelines in an attempt to make the weather more relevant and uplifting. The move could mean that forecasts will predict a “mainly dry” day instead of “patchy rain” or report that it will be “warm for most of the day” instead of “chilly in isolated, coastal areas”. Viewers can also look forward to “a generally clear” outlook instead of “occasional showers” and “isolated storms”.

BigShinyThing of course knows that the British weather sucks and that humanity is doomed. Soon doom-mongers will be able to get a daily fix at our sister site, BigScaryThing. Watch this space.