Why is this news, indeed? Because it makes people angry. That’s it, that’s the sole and only reason. There’s no other point to wasting the amount of verbiage that has been wasted on this complete non-story of a pointless event.
Are you suggesting we should have news stories broadcasted to the whole world about every possible thing that might offend someone, because otherwise we’re ignoring “things that don’t affect me?” There’s a reasonable threshold below which this kind of thing shouldn’t be worth this kind of attention, IMO, and lighting a cigarette on an eternal flame is well below that threshold.
I was answering the question:
Why is this news, indeed? Because it makes people angry. That’s it, that’s the sole and only reason. There’s no other point to wasting the amount of verbiage that has been wasted on this complete non-story of a pointless event.
Are you suggesting we should have news stories broadcasted to the whole world about every possible thing that might offend someone, because otherwise we’re ignoring “things that don’t affect me?” There’s a reasonable threshold below which this kind of thing shouldn’t be worth this kind of attention, IMO, and lighting a cigarette on an eternal flame is well below that threshold.