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>>laurex+(OP)
"Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." HN Guidelines

But this is probably just my lurker observation. Not against all news but there should be at least some spark of insight of novelty. Feel free to flag now.

Edit: To expand a bit. What I like about HN is not that it's tech but it has plethora of very interesting topics and comments are almost always insightful (unlike this one). This headline is basically the whole article. The comments are therefore not guided by idea, but news. This topic is important but nothing comes out of these threads. This rant is contributing to bad quality of comments, one thing I always try to avoid.

>>lurkmu+a6
> unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon

Hundreds of journalists brutalised over the last week would seem to qualify, though for 'interesting' substitute 'horrifying'.