Dear Readers,

Once upon a time, there was a publisher of a small newspaper who promised to report only good news and leave the bad news to other media. Daily newspapers, television and recently “social media” are mainly focused – or should I say obsessed – with bad news: violent crime, accidents, disasters, etc. “If it bleeds, it leads” is a journalistic maxim, meaning that stories involving violence, injury, or, in essence, blood, are prioritized as top news, because they attract the highest readership. That’s one reason why I launched the Mill Woods Mosaic in 2008, because I was sick and tired of chasing ambulances, fire trucks and cop cars when I worked as a reporter for weekly newspapers. The publisher of the “good news newspaper” failed, because many readers found it boring, but the Mill Woods Mosaic is still around after more than 17 years of publishing. The latest issue of this multicultural community newspaper (Feb. 15) is a good example with several columns about good news: Ron Kuban wrote about “Focusing on the Positive”, Sharan Sandhu about “Random Acts of Kindness” and the topic of my own column is “Love Thy Neighbor.” There are many reasons to still believe that we are living in a Wonderful World.

‍Arnim Joop 
Publisher & Editor
mwmosaic@telus.net