I do accept that negative new stories are in important staple of news organisations, but It's not as if only negative stories sell. Everyone wants to buy a paper about their sports team's great victory, the daring exploits of a military hero or about an amazing new drug that defeats a previously untreatable disease.<p>'No disruption on the roads due to snow' and 'Underpass to be built by Victory Day' are non-stories. They're either about things not happening, or things happening as they were probably expected to happen anyway. It's not that they're 'positive', it's that they're not news.<p>I read web sites and jurnals on specific topics like scinece or history and their content is almost always positive. They are about progress and uncovering new information. People love that stuff. Positive news isn't the same thing as 'bad things not happening'.