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SATURDAY LONG READ: A rare reason to celebrate

News is so often bad for a reason.

‘All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,’ observed Leo Tolstoy in Anna Karenina.

Tolstoy could easily have been talking about the metrics on which the media information industry runs.

But this week, I want to depart from the usual news script of how much worse the world seems to be get…