Pope Francis has urged the media to tell "good news" stories and to not constantly focus on stories to do with war and terrorism.
In his message for the 51st World Day of Communications, entitled Communicating Hope and Trust in our Time, Francis said that he is "convinced we have to break the vicious circle of anxiety and stem the spiral of fear resulting from a constant focus on 'bad news' (wars, terrorism, scandals and all sorts of human failure)."
"This has nothing to do with spreading misinformation that would ignore the tragedy of human suffering, nor is it about a naive optimism blind to the scandal of evil. Rather, I propose that all of us work at overcoming that feeling of growing discontent and resignation that can at times generate apathy, fear or the idea that evil has no limits," he said.
