Day 105 - Bad news versus good news - which is better?

Clever Bird has realised recently why it is that newspapers and news broadcasts focus on bad news. It does seem to be human nature to read bad news rather than good news. Sad but true. She doesn't think it's that we want to know bad stuff. Well she's pretty sure it isn't anyway. Well she hopes it isn't. But she realises that whenever Creative Clara puts up a "bad" heading to the blog, or an ambiguous one, lots more people read it. In Baggy's case, she hopes that that is because people do care about her and the gang and the furries. So if she puts up a "bad" heading they just want to check she's okay. If she heads it "perfect day" or "good news" it gets read. But put up a "bad" heading and it gets two, three or even four times as many views.

But it gets Clever Bird wondering too, whether some people don't like hearing happy stuff. Maybe happy stuff makes them unhappy, or more unhappy. If that's true, it's sad. Baggy is the opposite. Baggy is an ostrich really. She stopped reading newspapers about twenty years ago. She doesn't watch the news either. She'll listen to it on the radio if it comes on. Clever Bird realises that this is rather a shallow attitude, but frankly, she hates the constant bad news. So now she has a dilemma. Does she let Creative Clara put bad news in her blog and flag it as bad in the heading? Or does she just get her to write the nice stuff?

No. There is no dilemma. Her blog is real. It's not made up. It happens. So if bad stuff happens and it is potentially vaguely interesting to you bloggees, she will write about it. BUT, she will cut back on alarmist headlines (even though that will drop her viewing numbers). She doesn't want to worry people. So apologies from Clever Bird for the earlier blog. Baggy has not broken her leg. Minty Mutt has not broken his as such either. The bone that has broken shouldn't be there in the first place, so although when it broke it hurt him like heck, he now appears to be absolutely fine. Put it this way, Furry Mama is currently watching him hurtling at full pelt across some meadow or woodland in his dream. All four legs are in full action.........