Thread for the mysteriously newsworthy

[ChuckF]

I check the Washington Post and the New York Times at least once a day, and I frequently find myself reading an article that really fails to qualify as anything I can imagine anyone at all could ever give a single fuck about. For example. It has quotes and everything, and I kind of hope that the author just made them up instead of actually going and soliciting. It makes me sad to imagine somebody in the Post newsroom going around to various DC area places where the youngs hang out and looking for people with cracked cell phone screens and then asking about them.

So, in order to validate the existence of these kinds of articles, I will put them here for . I invite your contributions, and propose a few ground rules to avoid inundating the thread with mundane inanities (i.e. mundaninating the thread) and saving it for the finer specimens, like this hilariously out-of-touch travel piece from the Times. Therefore:

1. I know that CNN.com kind of beat me to this idea years ago when it decided to focus on becoming an aggregator of this kind of content. No CNN.com content.
2. No cable news/HuffPo/similar content at all. See above.
3. Extra points will be awarded for articles that appear in national print media.
4. Points will be deducted for local television news stories.