when news isn't news

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter

I think I've posted this before but it bears repeating.

When the world's oldest person dies it is NOT news.

Huffington Post, this is news I cannot use. How are they not the most likely person in the world to die? And it isn't like I knew anything about the old person, either. What the headline really says is, "The most predictible thing imaginable happened on the other side of the world to someone you have never heard of."

It's almost as non-newsy as the headline, "middle east peace talks fail". You know what media? We EXPECT that.

However, there is one circumstance I would find the death of the world's most likely person to die newsworthy: If it was foretold by the death cat!!! Dun Dun dunnnnn!!!!!!






That's how I roll.