Dear God/ess, I was inspired tonight to once and for all, turn off cable TV, and cancel it. I can get anything newsworthy on the Internet. Or the Good News Gazette.

Sumaiya Malik was on our MoonMooYou radio show last night, creator of the Good News Gazette. She, too, is a news junky who awoke one day to realize that the news as we know it causes a kind of depression and angst on our psyche.

She senses the news as a form of energy that causes despair on the mind, body and soul. Thus the Good News Gazette was born and went live at the end of 2009.

At this time, Sumaiya and her significant other browse the Internet about four hours a night to find the good news. What I foresee happening is people experiencing original insights about local news items will contribute these to the GNG. Someday it will be entirely written with original stories, published first in the GNG, with one million plus subscribers.

When this happens, we will know that good news is winning over the chaos and crazy making of the mainstream, 24 hour news cycle.

When this happens, we will know that the thirst for enlightened discourse and discussion is winning  over the mind numbing, addictive sensationalism of empty story lines.

We are all guilty of buying into this hypnotic negativity. Often people will take a news fast and when returning to the news find that soon, another news fast is necessary.

One man I know took a one year vow of silence and unplugged from technology throughout this entire time. Upon returning to the world, he noticed that the news stories were exactly the same in tone and vibration as the year before. No change. No interruption. Just Mind Numbness.

One day soon, this will change because of the good work Sumaiya is doing to change the collective negative world view. She is changing perception of what is important in the world: that people are good and individuals matter.

Om Peace Amen

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