Do you have the Monday news blues?
If you're like most Americans of conscience these days, you scroll quickly past horror-filled headlines about billionaires sucking up our money, and weapons manufacturers winning contracts while Gaza's babies are being starved.
You're not alone. With so much awful news coming at you every day, it's easy to think nothing is going right. It's easy to feel overwhelmed and helpless doomscrolling through grim headlines. After all, you're just one person. How can you fix this broken world we live in?
So you move past the news and you push it out of your mind because you have to get to work, there are deadlines to meet, dishes to wash, laundry to fold, dinner to prepare. The chores pile up nearly as fast as the bad news piles up. Meanwhile our nation burns, and a small voice at the back of your mind asks, will there even be a world for today's children to grow up in?
I've felt the same way. It's why I chose solutions journalism as a way to educate myself and learn about the world we live in. Shifting our mindset to understanding how everyday people are fixing our broken world keeps us engaged, prevents mental burnout, and can actually work. But there's far too little journalism that focuses on how people are making things right.
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It's addictive to read all the ways in which the horror show of our world is unfolding. It gets the clicks and views. But once you've poured all your energy into examining just how badly we're all getting screwed, the corporate news outlets you've been consuming get their ad revenue, while you're left exhausted and disengaged. It's a perfect model for corporate media.
But what if there was another way to stay informed?
Perhaps you were inspired by the racial justice wins shared by Black Lives Matter Grassroots co-founder Melina Abdullah last week...
... or the incredible $30/hour minimum won by tourism workers in Southern California and how they persisted for two years until their victory.
This isn't about putting a positive spin on the news. It's about lifting up the models of success so we can more clearly imagine and realize a just world.
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