News is subjective. Things that I might consider vitally important and urgently interesting you might dismiss as dull or trite. That's how we can have both New Scientist and Heat on our news stands. You pays your money you get the news of your choice.
However when it comes to the TV news you are subjected to editorial approval, someone else choosing what news pieces are vital and what can be put by the wayside.
I can only imagine the Meeting at the BBC TV news station this morning.
"Fairly dull day today. What shall we have as our headline news today?"
"Well, astronomers have found an earth-type planet which is the first that has the right constant temperature to have liquid water which is essential for life as we understand it. Even if there's no intelligent life on the planet now it could be fully capable of supporting human life in the future and might even prove a refuge should we continue using up our resources at the terrifying rate we are. The earth is no longer alone in the universe and it might even prove that humanity isn't either."
"Sounds great, prep everything for...hang on have you seen Brittany's new stomach?! Now that's a lead story! Chuck all of this scientific captain planet crap and get a plastic surgeon in for an interview. Get a dietician in as well in case she's on some new regime."
It's days like today I'm so glad my TV news career never got off the ground.
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