If they don't want a bad story in the newspaper, it doesn't get written.
Put quite simply, you cannot pay readers to click on a bad headline or a boring story.
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And sort of a good news, bad news big story of the week, with the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis report on preliminary 3rd Qtr.
After about a week since the horrible story hit the media the aftershock is like a bad car accident: nobody wants to get too close to Penn State, but everyone wants to watch.
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Of course, no contemporary feel-good story is complete without a hint of bad news to come.
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Sounds like a bad idea, but Daniel Lyons explains in the story on page 90 why it may be a very good one.
That he was so mad, bad and dangerous to know makes his life a compelling story.
For people who think bad news was good news, they smelt a story.
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Meanwhile, the wider sports landscape in Seattle was so bad that it was screaming out for a homegrown success story.
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They race around telling a story about their departure that makes them look bad, and then they start frantically answering online job ads.
"There could be a million distractions around him -- he could be on a bad phone connection, in an airport, running for a plane, and he'd immediately grasp a complex story as five of us shouted it into a speaker phone, and he'd have the fix, " she said.
The saddest aspect of this story is that Kingdoms of Amalur was not a bad game.
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Their addition to the story was to phone up a nutritionist (not a bad idea at all) and get a quote on how many calories this was.
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More important than that familiar story, however, is the deeper bad news that a profoundly leveraged credit-economy culture repackages nightmares as dreams.
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"I think that it's a good news story, when we've had probably nothing but bad news stories for the last 20 years really, " he said.
Michael Losh , whose departure FORBES predicted in a May 29 cover story that cited analyst gripes of arrogance and downplaying bad news, which he denies.
Astonishingly, Abrams sent his email just days after a blockbuster New York Times story about the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and other bad behavior at Tribune since Sam Zell took over the company in 2007.
Rhythmically directed by actor Scott Cooper, who adapted the screenplay from a novel by Thomas Cobb, Crazy Heart is largely the story of Jean and Bad's up-and-down romance.
Miller called the planted question a "bad idea" intended to create an initial IRS apology by Lerner before the story broke with the release of the inspector general's report.
What makes this story more than simply one of a massive real estate investment company gone bad is the double-edged sword so prevalent in the chase for oil-based Middle East wealth: sovereign wealth funds and Shariah-compliant finance.
But the story is a little more complicated than I've made it, because science has shown us that bad environments can affect a person so strongly that it changes the personal makeup in ways that will make the person more vulnerable to depression in the future.
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