Did He Yell "Fire!"
I'm sorry. I beg for forgiveness before I even start. It is beyond my ability to resist this one. Here's the headline from Yahoo! News this morning:

Man trapped waist-deep in chocolate

It seems a worker in a Kenosha, WI chocolate factory got stuck. They had to thin the chocolate to get him free.

Well, many decades ago now there was this classic folk/comedy group, The Smothers Brothers. One of their classic routines involved Tommy telling about falling into a vat of chocolate. They ramble on and around the story. Dick asks him how he managed to get out. Tommy said he yelled "Fire!" Dick asks him why he yelled "Fire!" The answer was simple. No one would have come if he had yelled "Chocolate!"

Great comedy, but scary when it actually happens I would think.

But the Big Story Still Is
No, not the war in Iraq. No, not the cease-fire in the Middle East. No, not even Snakes on a Plane or Tiger and Phil together at the PGA. The BIG STORY remains JonBenet. The media feeding frenzy is incredible. It goes on and on, around and around. They debate the truth or lack of it in the story. They resort to Stephen Colbert's truthiness in my opinion to make this into a story that doesn't deserve the attention it's getting. I know, people pay attention. They turn in to hear more about it. Hence the ratings improve. But the quality of the new goes down because, news it is not. (A Yoda quote?)

I wonder if gossip can fall under the commandment about bearing false witness? Just a thought.