That's not news!, This is news. Options

[mipadi]

I don't mean to be a jerk by bringing this up, but does anyone else feel like the News forum doesn't really contain news, but rather weird stories I found on the Internet that read like pseudo-news stories?

[dustbunny]

well the thing is people on cb (and most of the world actually, for that matter) simply don't care about the daily mundane crap we consider "news" news. "News" happens all the time, it's the same stuff all over again: people kill, people die, humanity sucks, etc etc. People would prefer not to read/hear such news and are only interested in things that are different or weird or fun; everything else is boring or painfully true.

[brooklyneast05]

well the thing is people on cb (and most of the world actually, for that matter) simply don't care about the daily mundane crap we consider "news" news. "News" happens all the time, it's the same stuff all over again: people kill, people die, humanity sucks, etc etc. People would prefer not to read/hear such news and are only interested in things that are different or weird or fun; everything else is boring or painfully true.

i agree with this.


at one point i cared about the news section here. then i realized it was pointless because no one would even read the entire story, so there was no chance of a real discussion. two paragraphs is pushing it for most people around here.