As many of his journalistic peers are focusing on bad news, The New York Times‘s Nicholas Kristof took to his newspaper’s op-ed pages to espouse a much different view. Because of the insular nature of the news business and its myopic focus on the events in the political sphere, many people are missing the bigger picture, according to Kristof. There has been unprecedented progress in the treatment of certain diseases, including leprosy and trachoma, and a major decrease in the number of the world’s population who are going hungry. Child mortality also hit a historic low.
“Those of us in the columny gig are always bemoaning this or that, and now I’m saying that life is great?” he writes. “That’s because most of the time, quite rightly, we focus on things going wrong. But it’s also important to step back periodically.”
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