Good news, bad news

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Good news, bad news

When my daughter was in eighth grade at Chico Junior High School and I taught science at Chico High, we used to ride our bikes to and from school together. One afternoon in October, she left before me to go to our home about a mile away off West Sacramento Avenue, because she wanted to get ready for a junior high dance. As I rode up to our house about 45 minutes later, a middle aged neighbor I didn’t know well and his daughter were just turning …

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Surely some of the readers of this small column will be asked why to refer to the positive news we call them simply “good” and, when we allude to the negatives we use the superlative “worst”. The answer is simple, the news that usually shows us the means of expression, with very few exceptions, are not bad but very bad. When one “slaps” on television does not find some program or series of his predilection and calls on some news, he no longer kn…