Fortyhboobs's blog post - Good news is no news - ?

The following AP story appeared in our local newspaper on Monday:

"FRENCH QUARTER STILL HAS LIFE
Determination: Some gritty residents say they've survived for a week by helping each other.

In the absence of information and outside assistance, groups of rich and poor banded together in the French Quarter, forming "tribes" and dividing up the labor.

As some went down to the river to do the wash, others remained behind to cook and to protect property.

While mold and contagion grew in the muck that engulfed most of the city, something else sprouted in this most decadent of American neighborhoods--humanity."

The article went on to describe how well this small ad hoc community has fared because of the self-reliant, neighbor-helping-neighbor attitude the residents chose to adopt. It was a wonderful story, but I never saw it covered on TV. D and I have been watching CNN almost around the clock since Katrina struck and all we've heard is bad news, no stories like this one. Why is that? Why is only the bad brought to the public's attention?