i'm italian native and your phrase it's correct!

I am not a native, but I would say translate like this (non literally): Imagine if instead of bad news only, there were also good news... I would like to see other translations by English natives. The structure and literal meaning of the Italian sentence is: think if instead of speaking only of bad, one spoke too of good... this is incorrect English, but should help you to understand the meaning and propose alternate translations.