The News Story Nobody Is Reporting | John Green

My brother likes to say that bad news usually happens all at once and good news happens slowly. If we were to really report the most important news story every day, the front page of the New York Times every single day for the last 30 years would read, fewer children died today than any day in the last 5,000 years. We've reduced the number of people who die under the age of five from 12 million the year I graduated from college to 5 million last year. It's an incredible achievement. It wasn't natural, it wasn't normal, it wasn't

ordinary, it wasn't going to happen anyway. It happened because hundreds of ordinary, it wasn't going to happen anyway. It happened because hundreds of millions of people work around the world to make it happen.