Proverb- “Bad news travels fast”
Meaning:
The
meaning of the proverb ‘Bad news travels fast’ is just the same as it
sounds. We all know that bad news travels at the speed of fire right from the
place where it originates until the place where it can transmit. It’s like a
wind carrying the message everywhere. The medium through which this happens in
this new age era is not just limited to humans spreading the words unlike
years back. There is a couple of other mediums too like T.V, Radio, Newspaper, etc.
but the most happening among all this is the cutting age of Social Media. It’s
one such platform where something has to pop in one place and within minutes it
can reach up to hundreds and thousands of people. And this spread of posting,
sharing and commenting is even faster when the news is a bad one compared to
the ones which might be good. By this, it means the reaction rate to bad news is much more which in turn triggers a faster spread across the globe.
Example:
We
all have come across situations where something majorly bad has happened to any
part of the country or Globe and we get to hear about it just randomly (as if
the wind is speaking to us) without even voluntarily reading a newspaper or
watching the news. It is a kind of news where you will find that it’s every second person’s the topic of the day whether in family, friends, colleagues or even most frequently
while traveling. Some of the examples include news like an Earthquake, Floods,
Terrorist attack, Murder, etc.
News
like 9/11, World Trade Centre attack, Serial Blast in a country, Earthquakes, etc.
– these are some category of bad news that travels with a speed of light. It is
such kind of bad news that an illiterate, a person not so interested in news,
a residence of a village or a poor person who doesn’t even have any medium of
getting news will also hear about it. This proves that bad news travels fast.
Sentence
Example:
1.
Rohan- My grandmother does not watch T.V or
read newspapers but she still knows about the Nepal Earthquake. I wonder how.
Sahil- Well you know it’s bad news and “Bad
news travels fast”.
2.
Someone
has rightly said that “Bad news travels fast”. Even my small niece
knows about the murder of the Prime Minister.
3.
“Bad
news travels fast”- I
say so because I got to know the news of the terrorist attack in Kashmir while on a
vacation where I was completely detached from all news mediums.
4.
Vikram
knows about Sania’s car accident through a friend of a friend. You see “Bad
news travels fast”.
5.
The
news of that brutal murder case has broken the internet. It’s really true that “Bad
news travels fast”.
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