The Buyer's Market Times: Happy Earth Day

4.22.2009

Happy Earth Day

We want to commend Boon Elementary School for having an awesome Earth Day celebration. They picked up trash around the school, had various presentations for the students, and even had the students bring trash-free lunches on Earth Day. Congratulations to the school for being so proactive in promoting a green lifestyle.

We at Newport Homebuilders were happy to participate in the events on Earth Day. The LiveGreen guy went to the school and did eight 30 minute presentations to groups of 50 kids each. It was tons of fun. We think the kids learned some good stuff about recycling and conserving energy and water. Here is a picture of the event with the LiveGreen guy talking to a group of kids.

Thanks again Boon Elementary for letting us come and talk to the kids. We had a blast.

This Happy News Brought To You By:
Newport Homebuilders
www.newporthomebuilders.com
469.854.6640

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Have you ever wondered why the news media focus on the bad news? Why do they focus on the negative when so much positive is happening in the world? David Blanchard wrote on industryweek.com "Bad news is more likely to attract a casual reader’s eye than good news. It’s a secret journalists have known for years." Do you agree? We certainly do. That really helps explain the focus on bad news.

Peter McWilliams commented to the same effect when he said “The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.”

Because we agree with Malcolm X when he said "the media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses," we have created this blog. Here you can read what is really going on in the DFW housing market, not just the negative news that is printed to make a buck. Happy Reading!

Media Quotes

“Media: 99.99% of what happens is not on the news” - Loesje (international free speech organization)

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“All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values” - Marshall McLuhan (Canadian philosopher and scholar)

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