Why are we so bad at reporting good news? | Angus Hervey

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🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Why is good news so rare? In a special broadcast from the TED stage, journalist Angus Hervey sheds light on some of the incredible progress humanity has made across environmental protection, public health and more in the last year, making the case that if we want to change the story of humanity this century, we have to start changing the stories we tell ourselves. "When we only tell the stories of doom, we fail to see the stories of possibility," says Hervey.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks daily.
0:14.2	Alright, when you think of news headlines, they're rarely the kind of news we want to hear.
0:19.2	But Angus Hervey takes a longer view of current events, and with that perspective, finds
0:24.4	a lot of hope and possibility.
0:26.8	In his Ted 2023 dispatch, he gives us a sample of the good news we should know.
0:32.0	In a talk delivered in the format of a newscast from the Ted stage, after the break.
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1:08.2	Hello, and welcome to this special report where we take a look at the big events that
1:21.5	have shaped our world in the last 12 months.
1:24.7	I'm Angus Hervey, and this is the news.
1:28.6	We begin our broadcast with a story that has dominated headlines this past year, Russia's
1:33.6	invasion of Ukraine.
1:35.8	The war has inflicted a terrible human toll, plunging millions into an unrelenting conflict,
1:42.6	dramatically upending international politics, and sparking turmoil in energy markets around
1:48.5	the world.
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