The blog title is from a moby song, and I feel that it sums up my mood. I have a degree in media which covers some philosophy and law but mainly world events and world wide coverage of information, the corse alone is enough to make a mind like mine a little low as for things to be covered by the media they have to be unfortunate or bad. The principals of newsworthyness alone only cater to bad news for priority. I think its Galtung and Rouge theory of newsworthyness if you want to find out more I could be wrong few years since I studied it and it's late and I don't wanna look it up.

I'm just feeling lots of sadness around me at the moment remembering the attitude of lecturers also brings me down from comments they made while talking about philosophy and probabally bad news as well, saying something along the lines of the working class are unable to be depressed as they lack the ability to understand things indepth enough to become truely depressed about them but as intellectuals we can feel depressed. Now I'd describe my family as working class so this was offensive, but isn't everything these days? Is everyone only out for themselves is that our nature as human beings?

I do two voluntary jobs one for sue rider care and another working with disabled people and horses, but even in these environments there are unkind views frequently spread which kinda caught me off guard that certain people can talk about being bullied the sprot racist comments out of nowhere.

As the newsworthyness states are we as a people only interested in other peoples misfortune and our own happiness?

The current tabloids are covering Jade Goody which in a way illustraits the state of the media, someone famous for having foul language and being fairly offensive due to ignorance that has died from cancer, the event itself is tragic someone dying so young leaving a family, but the same tabloid doesn't show coverage of anyone else struggling with this desease who hasn't offended hundereds of people and has done great things, it's seems no one cares about their stories.

Sorry kinda heavy stuff but on my mind and I haven't blogged in a while.

To put the discussin in context for gamespot theres the readyness for gaming to be publically demonized for warping our minds, again making us fearful or depressed at the thought of a nation of potential killers I mean don't millions of us game? anyway I'll leave it at that...

A more videogamy (not a word :S) blog next time, just seeing the paper got me thinking about these things, don't worry I'm fine I know its kinda a low mood sounding blog but I just wanted to emphisise the mood of the blog counter arguments encouraged

Moby: Why does my heart feel so bad - click