tarquin wrote:
So can I write about the cat that was stuck up a tree in the next street from me? The local press gave in plenty of coverage!
I think there's *some* threshold below which it's too trivial. But something avidly followed by 50-100 million people is definitely above the threshold. Heck, there's probably more people who followed the Elizabeth Smart case than there are people who follow some of the more obscure Australian football sides, yet we don't insist *those* are just media-manufactured nonsense we don't need to write about.
-Mark