The news (media) hates the USA

So I was out Friday morning at 5am (a long story)

We are supposed to call it "black Friday" now I guess

Anyway I was surprised to see the parking lot at my local strip mall almost completely full.. shoppers were already swarming the office supply warehouse store and the sporting goods store and fabric store and whatever other stores were in that mall, remember this is at 5 AM !!

So I had nothing else to do so I went to the 'real' malls around my house

there are two of them and they were both full of cars (well one was more crowded, but the second mall is all but empty of stores right now) and all the 'strip centers' between them were also full..

Smaller stores that weren't open yet had lines of shoppers waiting for their doors to open

Smart restaurants (that normally are closed so early) were open and were full of shoppers eating breakfast

I took a bunch of pictures of the full parking lots and lines and traffic all well before the sun came up..

I thought to myself .. where is the 'CRISIS' ??
And who is responsible for not informing all these poor schmucks that they had no money and couldn't afford to shop this year because we are in an economic crisis !!!

I listened to the news (radio) as I drove around and they were going on and on about how 'black Friday' was forecasted to be much lower than last year.. and they forecasted how many stores would be forced out of business after their low numbers this year

Well I switched to the music channel and fought traffic back to my house at 6am

So now it is Sunday morning a few days later.. and I hear the local news tell me how 'black Friday' was up 3% from last year..
Good News??
Heck no.. even though the people of Tucson spent 3% more than last year, and even though the news companies stupid forecast was way off about lower numbers.. we still have a reason to worry..

It turns out we had 30 something days between Thanksgiving and Christmas last year.. this year we only have 29 days !!!!!!!!!
(the horror)

When are we going to stop listening to this anti-US drivel the majority of news shows spew on a near constant basis?

I recently have to listen, here in AZ, to news reports about an incident where a few people are hurt (killed) in India by a few crazy people but they couldn't find anything positive to report on??

For crying out loud, we have over 300 MILLION people in this country
I bet more than 100 people did something more positive than dying for the anti-US press to report on

So I've decided what I'd like for X-mas this year..
A new US news philosophy

Lets all do what we can to throw out the current pile of losers who report on BS, hatred, despair and agony almost constantly.
And lets replace them with worthwhile people who would try reporting on interesting, uplifting, positive events, while DOCUMENTING the bad things instead of highlighting the worse crap they can find each day

Perhaps that would swing the economy, perhaps that would empower the population as opposed to depressing us daily, perhaps that would give our young people a few more reasons to roll up their sleeves and help build, instead of giving them very little to look forward to

OK, rant off, I'll step off my soapbox, since talking about the current US news community is basically talking about crap, and I'd rather talk about something positive