Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Note to News Wires: This is Not News

The world's oldest person dies:

Yone Minagawa, who became the world's oldest person earlier this year, has died at a nursing home in southwestern Japan, an official said Tuesday. She was 114.

Would a respectable news service run the headline "World's youngest person soils diaper at 38 minutes"? Probably not. Why run this then? We see this headline four to eight times a year. Enough already. The only new thing the world's oldest person can do is die, and it happens multiple times every single year.

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