Apr 26, 2006

it's important if I say it's important

As "Old Media" takes on "New Media" ways, what with comment sections and all, it's great to see editors interact with Joellen Public. Case in point: a maddeningly pointless "news" story that, by virtue of its utter banality, is now news in some meta-pseudo-philosophical way.
A dark-colored, four-door Chrysler pulled away from a Lacey gas station Tuesday afternoon with a gas pump nozzle in the passenger-side gas tank, Lacey police said, ripping the nozzle and hose from the pump.
After a couple commenters gripe about the obvious, back comes Christopher Dean Hopkins, online news editor:
For being unworthy of coverage, this certainly has received a lot of traffic and comments.
Zing!

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