Saturday, December 24, 2005

You see, folks, this is what I call newsworthy, certainly more so than the incessant story after story after story of sensational, 15 seconds of fame worth of paranoia/cynicism inducing bad news fed to us night after night on the television.

In short, a worker in a candy store in California was bagging the purchases of a customer and her diamond ring fell off into the bag. That made the news a few days ago. The person who found the ring returned it.

Having been well-trained in media cynicism, I can dig up a few points to be critical about, but no, the story is all we need to know. And if the news aired more stories like this, our realities wouldn't be such that petty criticisms can take down the point of a happy ending.