A good news newspaper called Good News was founded because, its American proprietors believed, people were tired of reading bad news. The bi-weekly paper refused to publish any bad news and only printed the good.

It didn't last very long, however. After just 16 months in operation the paper closed down. But it stuck to its guns of publishing only good news to the bitter end and refused to announce its own failure - this would have been contrary to its policy to include no news but good news. The last issue contained the headline "No war declared in 16 weeks".