This is what our populace is concerned about...sigh...

[monmouth]

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* 630 people recommended Tropical Storm Bonnie headed toward Gulf
* 7,008 people recommended 'Darth Vader' holds up Long Island bank
* 589 people recommended Love triangle defendant: I was attacked first
* 606 people recommended Opinion: Who's paying for Ground Zero mosque?
* 598 people recommended We're running out of internet addresses

http://www.cnn.com/

[Catshrink]

1. While DUers seem obsessed with the Clinton wedding.

:shrug:

[Oregone]

2. Do you have to be on facebook to see that first?

[monmouth]

4. No, it was on CNNs home page down on the right...n/t

[Boojatta]

3. How many recommended the distinction between populace and populous?

[monmouth]

5. Thanks, my bad...n/t

[KT2000]

6. what about Lindsay and Mel

the hours of air time spent on those two says a lot.

[reformist2]

7. ::runs off to find pic of Darth Vader robber::

[dtexdem]

8. Hey, Cheney's holding up a bank is important!

Oh, Darth VADER, not Darth Cheney.

;-)

[gratuitous]

9. Well, at least the portion of our populace on Facebook

What do you go to Facebook for? And since this list is based on the activity of people you've friended, it further restricts the portion of the populace we're talking about. Celebrity gossip, stories of unusual events, and items that lend themselves to uninformed spouting off. I would reckon that a local television channel news site would have a different Top 5 list. Some things might be in common, like Tropical Storm Bonnie, but I think it depends on what sampling of the populace you're talking about.

Maybe you need some different friends?

[monmouth]

10. Ah, as the link indicates, this was on the homepage of CNN...n/t

[gratuitous]

11. Saw that too late

But clearly CNN needs some new friends.

[monmouth]

12. No prob. and CNN is getting almost as bad as HuffPo. I can't bear

to go there anymore. Read some of their headlines, mind boggling and almost always nothing to do with the content.... My dad thought TV was a wasteland, haha, he'd start to think of my fav internet sites the same way.