“Celebrities in rehab, political punditry and a mauling at the zoo – this is what we’re calling news these days” at JibJab.
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People have always been interested in weird things that happen to ordinary people and ordinary things that happen to important people, but it has only been recently that the technology has evolved for so much coverage of so many trivial things, often crowding out the coverage of important things that happen without stunning visuals.
So Sad but So true.
I suppose that that is also the reason it is so very funny.
I wonder what percentage of the news is created by the news – I mean how many of the events that are included on the news, happen as a reaction to other items included – and how many of the items are actual organic news…