Its probably just the modern era when space on websites etc has to be filled, but I have recently started to notice a lot of plain silly stories on reputable websites that I honestly think are just filling.
Here's couple of examples, and from the supposedly upmarket, intelligent BBC, one of the most revered corps in the world.
1) A French woman was billed 12 quadrillion Euro for a phone bill. It was waivered (you don't say!). Ok so is this really the first time a computer glitch caused something like this to happen? I very much doubt it, but in the past we didn't feel the need to tell the world about it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19908095
2) A couple of halfwits rip down walls in their house to find a beeping noise, that turned out to be a fire alarm needing a battery.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-19921055
Are they just filling space or supplying what the masses want to read?
Here's couple of examples, and from the supposedly upmarket, intelligent BBC, one of the most revered corps in the world.
1) A French woman was billed 12 quadrillion Euro for a phone bill. It was waivered (you don't say!). Ok so is this really the first time a computer glitch caused something like this to happen? I very much doubt it, but in the past we didn't feel the need to tell the world about it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19908095
2) A couple of halfwits rip down walls in their house to find a beeping noise, that turned out to be a fire alarm needing a battery.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-19921055
Are they just filling space or supplying what the masses want to read?