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I'm Angus Hervey, the founder and editor of Fix The News. I started this newsletter nine years ago to provide a counterpoint to the relentless negativity of mainstream news. I believe that the news should give us an accurate picture of what is happening in the world, and right now it’s doing a really bad job at that.
This is me, speaking at TED in 2024 about progress.
The news tells us what’s going wrong. It’s about failure, not success. It’s also true that the news is about sudden events, not gradual trends. As a result, vast waves of progress - extreme poverty declining, lifespans increasing, laws becoming more tolerant, diseases disappearing, oceans and forests being protected, clean energy replacing fossil fuels - are invisible in journalism.
A simpler way of saying this is that terrible things might be happening in the world, but not everything that's happening is terrible. This publication exists to showcase all the things that are going right, and every new reader, like yourself, helps us prove that there's a demand for this kind of journalism.
A word of warning: we are unashamedly biased. You will only find good news here. Not dogs riding surfboards, or stories about local scout halls. When I say 'good news', I mean real news. Stories of progress for people and the planet that take place at a large scale and have genuine impact, even when mainstream media coverage is scarce.
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There's no denying that there's a lot at stake for humanity right now. The next decade represents a crucial hinge-point in history. But if nobody is documenting what's going right, then how will we know if it's working? We're here to remind you that there's a chance we're going to make it, and that's true then you'll hear about it here first.
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