Yes, certainly. Nifty is, by definition, nifty. I like cool stories too. But the two stories do share a certain "arc". Both were called news. Girl is missing. One is found, one is not. Both in countries far from where I live.
If anything, the Aruba story should rate the same level of coverage as the Ethiopian story.
I was not calling you a hypocrite, sorry. I was pointing out the fact that these things happen and deserve some attention. But the contrast shows the absurdity of the stories that are over the top. And for nothin! That "runaway bride"?
It's filler if it's anything. You put it very well when you said it was a "nifty event". SD started talking about media madness and I was using a comparative example. Sorry. Here:
