[1][2][3] An anonymous employee of a television company leads a seemingly ordinary life, going to work every day and returning home to his wife in the evening.

At his job, he is constantly confronted with images of violence and disasters, to which he shows no reaction, while his marriage is marked by his and his wife Fedora's inability to communicate.

Cinema Nuovo faulted a too general perspective on contemporary society,[4] while Giovanni Grazzini in Corriere della Sera noted that "the staging is very effective but the film struggles to assume the airy and compelling logic of the surreal parable".

[1] Dario Zanelli in Il Resto del Carlino came to a more positive conclusion, acknowledging an "enthralling impetus" in the way the film addressed its subject matter, and an "ambiguous Bunuelian flavour" in its final scenes.

[1] In her 1986 book on Italian cinema, Mira Liehm criticised Good News as a "somewhat naive treatise about sexual obsessions and the fear of death".