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At times news can be depressing since good things often grow slowly and/or are not as spectacular as bad things; hence they do not feature much in the daily news. Still a lot of neat things happen, most people are nice, and many do good. Neat News tries to collect evidence for the positive. Obviously there can be disagreement about what constitutes good news and there is always a grain of subjectivity in the evaluation. However, for a number of issues there seems to be widespread agreement, for instance, when environmental work shows success, when the fight against an illness shows progress, when human rights are respected. These are all examples of `neat news'. For other news there may be more disagreement of whether it is good or not. For instance, in an election, often a large number of people do not consider the fact that the winner won as good news. Whether the news was neat may be decided only by historians many years later. Such news would typically not be included in these pages.

We try as much as possible to follow the three sieves of Socrates:

1. Any news must be true (by quoting where it comes from, following only trusted sources).
2. Any news should be good (we try to present only news that can be considered widely as not bad).
3. Any news should be relevant/interesting (a debatable property).

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Contact: info(@)neat-news(dot)com. neat-news.com is not responsible for the content of external sites.
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