That's simply because "bad news sells". The majority of people who go around doing the right thing consistently day after day, don't get on anyone's radar. They're not noticed because they are acting within a society's expectations of what is "normal".written_ficton wrote:Its a shame, the 'good' teenagers never make it more often to the news than the 'badies'
It's only the people who step outside that perception of normality who get noticed. Now that could be teenage louts, it could be people who've robbed the nearest bottle shop, it could be hoons doing burnouts ... or it could be the soldier who was awarded a VC, the ambulance service phone operator who gave a distraught mother CPR instructions over the phone, or a young person who's gotten the highest TEE score in the state and who's destined for great things.
It's all a matter of perception. People see what they want to see, and then try and apply that standard to the (mostly) invisible majority.