What's the deal?

Has anyone else noticed how darn depressing the news is? How they can't seem to write anything good about the economy? Here's an example of a headline from USA Today this last week (we get it delivered free to our rooms each day here): Stock rally gives hope, but both are fragile; Surge could be 6th in the row to fizzle.

Now, I understand that we are in the middle of a recession, and that things have been getting worse as we go along. And I understand that people on Wall Street are skeptical about the chances of things improving. But please! Can't we have a little optimism in the news? The article was basically about the huge jump we had in the DOW just recently, which really was huge, it was considered one of the biggest in history I think. Why couldn't they write about how great it was that the Dow had gone up without adding the downer part? I honestly think that the media makes things worse sometimes. The downer articles they write get people even more scared than they already are, which causes them to pull money out of banks and the stock market, which makes things worse, and the media writes more articles about the downfall of our economy. It's a vicious circle.

We could definitely use a little more optimism and cheerfulness. They say good news doesn't sell, but I don't see why, especially in such circumstances we are in now. I think everyone would be happy for a little good news.