"Bad News?" Media: BBC Breakfast: Mal Fletcher & David Jones

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Uploaded by on Sep 27, 2011

In challenging economic times, are news media going over the top with constant repetition of words like 'crisis', 'emergency' and 'depression'?

MAL FLETCHER, Social Futurist & Commentator and head of the London-based Think Tank 2020Plus, discusses the issue on BBC Breakfast. This interview took place in the lead-up to a five-day public study by 2020Plus into the prevalence of negative words in news media.

(For more, visit 2020Plus.net).

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  • @lumpfish99 Actually, you need to see that in the context in which it was given. Of course people need knowledge when it comes to change. But they need knowledge combined with hope, a sense of their own ability to be proactive and inventive - that's the context.

  • "what people need the most is not knowledge but hope"......er?

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