This site has been getting attention on the real news this weekend. HappyNews is for people who prefer to look at the world through rose colored glasses. Only happy things. Good things. Upbeat things. There is a "unhappy news alert" banner over the stocks. The weather listings always show you some place where the weather is nice. There is only one horoscope.

By selectively picking (and editing) stories off the AP wire, HappyNews presents only the happy side of things. Instead of reading about government pressure on the cable companies to eliminate "raunchy programming", you can hear about how the cable companies are becoming more family friendly. There is a story on the upcoming Iraq vote, which is a whole four sentences. There is an editorial about how things are better now than in the past, in general. And of course, the current hard hitting headline story about Michelle Kwan.

In short, this site is completely useless. However, it is good to know about so when someone says that the news media focuses on bad news, you can point out definitively that if they only focused on good news, it would be vapid and useless.