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Phil Gingrey: These success stories you don't see on the nightly news. I think it was Ann Murray that sang a very famous hit a number…

On the recordApril 8, 2008
These success stories you don't see on the nightly news. I think it was Ann Murray that sang a very famous hit a number of years ago, and I think the title of that was ``A Little Good News Today.'' You don't hear about good news because, by definition, it's not news. It's only mayhem and violence and killings and rapes and people putting their children in the trunk of a car and leaving them there for a day as a disciplinary action for some minor infraction. These are the kind of things that are on the front pages of our newspapers and on the 24-hour news service. They only talk about it when there's violence. Unfortunately, there's not much credit given to a little good news, in fact, a lot of good news.
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Phil Gingrey
Georgia

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Discussing the lack of positive news coverage in media.

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