They get more attention with negativity.
Even in places filled with so much festivity.

In the big city where the streets never slept.
A reporter named Autumn had a secret that she kept.

As she worked in the newsrooms filled with people, cameras, and lights
Reporting on the city’s long nights.

One day she’d report of flowers in bloom.
But she realized nobody would watch, and the paper’s rating fell at noon.

The following day she reported about a big fright.
And just like that the paper’s ratings grew overnight!

Her boss told her with a huge smile on his face.
“You must create more stories that frighten this place!!”

Entice fear danger and pain,
It will bring more viewers again!

So she kept at it, but she started to grow weary.
Was this the right thing to be doing to a city so merry?

She was concealing the goodness of the city from view.
All while the headlines were getting darker every single day anew.

Meanwhile deep under the city sky.
Good people did things every day no one would ever spy.

Because the reporters were looking for only trouble and fear.
They would never see all the good that came near.

It filled her with great sadness seeing the people’s moods fall.
Surrounded by only the worst of it all.

One day she decided enough was enough.
It was time to do what was right even if it was tough.

But she didn’t know how to get through the bluff.
That the world was only full of bad stuff.