In the past, people received news updates only by listening to the radio and reading newspaper. This is no longer the case. Due to advanced communication technologies, individuals nowadays are surrounded by all kinds of media at all times. They are being kept informed about what is happening worldwide almost simultaneously by thousands of websites, like TV news, radio programs, and even mobile phone text messages. As a result, bad news now has hi-tech wings and is being heard more often than ever before. Another important reason leading to this phenomenon is that the ultimate goal of media companies is to seek maximum profits. Since bad news is exaggerated for the sake of shock value, media companies of course make up much of it to boost sales, and attract more advertisement. So we see 24-hours, non-stop news report of airplane crashes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and violence. In order to solve this problem, in other words, to encourage the media to provide more balanced coverage to the...