Anything for a story...

So a quick little search of any news organization's website will produce quite a few frivolous, and quite pointless news stories. It's the stories like this that make your news organization look bad. It makes you look as if you're desperate to write a story just to fill that empty slot on the site. Really... that's exactly how it looks to me.

So one of these stories that I feel exemplifies this theory well, is one that I came across today on ESPN.com. Here's the title, you try to figure out why it's frivolous... "Matt Barkley bruises hand at USC's scrimmage". Maybe I am being over critical of ESPN's reporting. Maybe this is just them being everywhere, getting every story. However, I feel as if some just don't deserve front page attention.

Now ESPN is not the only source that does this; however, they are just the one I am focusing on today. Now the information provided in the "Matt Barkley article" is very relevant to some people. Most likely people living or coming from the Southern California/Los Angeles area, but the question is... Does this story really deserve a front page spot?

I know I'm getting repetitive here so I'll stop soon, but I felt as though I should at least voice my opinion as to what stories make front page news and what doesn't.

I never really made a point in this except to say I do not like frivolous news stories on the front page. I would like to hear your opinion on this, should you choose to leave it in the comments below.

Thanks for reading!
Chuck