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So, let’s take a look at today’s CNN “News”.  Not to pick on CNN, but a great illustration of the paucity of high-value information available in the news today:

Ok, the Obama address, that is news. But “Elk wears bar stool around neck?”  Don’t think so. The octuplet story has generated a lot of discussion at our home about medical ethics and what the role of government is in preventing people from doing things that aren’t in anyone’s best interest. But the “snipefest”?  No way.  Surf tips? Hardly news.  Tiger Woods on his latest round?  Entertaining perhaps, hardly of long term value.

The air crash, clearly this sounds like news, and I suppose it is. But again, the 9 people that were killed in the air crash are dwarfed by the more than 100 people that will be killed in the US in auto accidents today.

I loved the very first link to “Galaxy may be full of Earths, alien life”.  Sure enough, it may be.  Now, if someone had DISCOVERED alien life, that would be news!  But I don’t think that the idea that the galaxy “may be” full of Earths is something that just came up new today.  And, to be fair, it may also be empty of Earths and alien life.  So far, no real evidence exists to support either one!  Any new facts here would be news, but in this state, I am not sure what the value may be from this.

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