A newspaper in Amish country focuses on positive news. Although this article about Die Botschaft Amish newspaper initially appears critical of it's focus on positive news, even to avoid dwelling on local murders, I read further to see that for the paper's readers there are benefits to not getting a daily dose of negative hard news.

"There are facts that we really don't want to repeat.

It was hard to disagree with him. Three days after the murders, the facts of the case had already been repeated to numbness. There seemed nothing more to say about Roberts' malignance, or about the vulnerability of 10 small girls in pinafores, lined up for execution. And yet the reports kept going out from Nickel Mines, in gory detail, beaming out to every corner of the world. Once heard, the details of the crime stick in the head and are hard to banish.

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