Top Stories?

In what is becoming an increasingly annoying trend, it seems more often than not "important" or "top" news stories deal with the most meaningless of subject matter in terms of what is going on in the world. The above screen capture shows how the 'Top Stories' in Google news are mostly dealing with entertainment - only three of the topics have world relevance and two of them refer to the same thing (guess which ones - hint: _._. Joe).

Is it really so important to know what Carrie Underwood is doing? Sigh, actually can't get too worked up about it since I realize it's difficult to read the factual news day in and day out, though I can't help but get annoyed when news coverage is so blatantly supporting the creation of celebrities by devoting articles and front page space to extraordinary trivial events - I actually think I would be happier not knowing who or what a Bieber is.

Then again, maybe it goes both ways, entertainment is important to people and if they want to isolate themselves with shallow and meaningless news... the 'if it makes you happy' argument is hard to refute. Probably the only point where it gets retarded is when the same people complain about the world or start trying to bring their own viewpoints to situations around the world. A famous incident is the Miss South Carolina Q and A, though it's even scarier when these people get into politics.

I guess in the end, to each their own, just be sure to read up before deciding to join the conversation.