Tried to find the original report on a factory fire in a province I won't name.

I saw a brief mention on a foreign news site about a big industrial accident. When I searched for it using local news sites and the main search engine there, I found nothing but old, positive stories about the company. I used a VPN to check archives from outside the country and found a full report from a regional paper that had been taken down. It said over 200 workers were inside. Makes you wonder what gets decided isn't news. Anyone run into a solid wall of silence like this before?

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sarahh483mo ago

Try searching for good news, you'll find a whole archive of it.

ericfox3mo ago

Searching for it is the whole problem though... the good stuff shouldn't be buried. The bad news finds you first, every single time.

elliot_grant3821d ago

Joke about my search history being a total mess... I typed "happy stories" into Google once and it still served me a murder article before a single feel-good rescue dog video. My phone's algorithm must think I'm a sad sack who only wants bad news. Guess it's easier to find "man loses everything in flood" than "local bakery gives free cookies to strangers.