The promulgation of junk news grows and grows with every news cycle, but I believe
this headline from Yahoo! News, posted on June 2, has raised inane news reportage to an almost unsurpassable peak.
"Kate Middleton Proves Once and for All That Pink and Red Look Amazing Together."
Yes, it's true. After 30,000 years, give or take, of mankind's struggle to accessorize, the Duchess of Cambridge has demonstrated to a gob-smacked world that, yes, red and pink, when worn in proximity, look swell.
Wonder no further, clothes-wearing people of the world, the stylish Kate has slammed the door shut on any further debate on this issue. Red and pink are, definitively and once and for all, kinda nifty. Case closed.
This is what we've come to, folks. Substance is dead, inanity is the order of the day. In a world of celebrity worship and the 24-hour news cycle, this is what we have wrought.
Behold the state of news reportage. In amazing red and pink.