RiceChild’s mission is to challenge how individuals and organisations create and consume news, and in the process redefine newsworthiness. Traditional media outlets have opted to almost exclusively report on negative events. It’s generally accepted that news no longer be prefaced with an adjective describing whether it is good or bad, because it’s invariably the latter – no news is good news. People have become accustomed and addicted to the constant barrage of fear and despair of an unrelentingly 24-hour rolling news cycle.
This is far from the only issue. News has become so politically polarised, and agenda driven that it is almost impossible to discern the truth. The minute percentage of reporting that attempts to provide a more cheerful perspective is often dominated by the lives of rich, powerful or famous people; the latest philanthropic endeavours of multinational companies and billionaires; or the great achievements of vast research and development institutes. While some of these topics are newsworthy, the vast majority of the public has very little connection to them, and there are already a plethora of sites catering to this form of reporting.
Negative or sensational journalism is ubiquitous and saturates our lives. Something is missing. Stories of individuals, stories of small or medium-sized companies, stories of small events and daily life. Positive everyday stories for everyday people that may seem insignificant to the traditional media, but are exactly what we should be consuming. Stories that spread positivity in a world obsessed with the opposite.
RiceChild is committed to improving the human condition by sharing positive, meaningful events.
