Positive Media Day, celebrated every year on June 22, is a special awareness holiday that aims to promote positive, inspiring, and uplifting news in the media. Did you know that Americans get most news from television and online? Yes, according to recent research, 41% of Americans like getting their local news on television, and 37% prefer getting it online. Only 13% of Americans prefer a printed newspaper, and a mere 8% choose radio. So, what exactly is this Positive Media Day and why move away from negative media? Here’s everything you need to know about the history and significance of Positive Media Day.

HISTORY OF POSITIVE MEDIA DAY

A few decades back, the media had the power to educate people, the good and bad — don’t get us wrong, the media still has the power to do it, but unfortunately today’s media is filled with negativity and bad news. This has been shown to affect us negatively too. Media today is skewed heavily toward negative events and depressing information, and it’s time we turn the tides. Positive Media Day has been established to change the status quo of everyday media consumption.

There is too much hatred, negativity, fear, violence, and attacking that goes on every day and if this goes on, people will believe that this is how our world will always be in the coming days. Positive Media Day aims to inspire and uplift you and your news feeds by bringing a change in the mainstream media. It is based on the idea that if we can propel positivity into mainstream media, we can change the status quo and begin to shift our global sentiment.

With positivity in the media, people will be much happier, kinder, and compassionate and will be more excited for the future. Moreover, there’s a lot of amazing news out there in this world, we just want to see it and make others see it. So, this Positive Media Day, lets us take a stand together to spread awareness to make all news and media outlets a beacon of inspiration, positivity, and joy for the rest of the days.