Why is "everybody went shopping today" considered news?

[Critters2]

Honest to God, WGN is giving more time to the damn "Black Friday" bullshit than Mumbai. How is this news?

[NYC_SKP]

1. A, the economy makes it newsy. B, it's part of the conspiracy to make us...

...buy shit that we don't need and gifts of shit for people who don't need more shit.

Or else we feel guilty and unfulfilled, but then we feel that way anyway.

That's how our economy works!

[Deja Q]

3. I don't buy shit. Well, I'll buy food and that becomes shit, but that's not the point.

I buy tools and peripherals for said tools. And the occasional diversion, but I like "'Spin City' - The Complete First Season" DVD set, so there! :P

Plus, an outsider of our society looking in, the usual bollocks diatribe of how people are supposed to live cuts no ice with me. Mostly because, when telling said people to follow through with their own words*, they end up silent.

* Like how people always tell me to "go get a date", "get laid", or whatever, it's like they've done such a good thing they'll get a merit badge. Well, anyone can say jack shit and think they've saved the universe from some recursive exothermic reaction, whatever that means except you get the implication it's probably a big and nasty event, when in reality they've done nothing. :D

Wait, what was my point? Oh yes, that's it: One man's junk is another man's tool. Oh grand, now I thought of a double entendre thanks to Gen-Y colloquialisms based on human male genitalia... :crazy:

[Critters2]

4. Ummm....wow.

Just wow.

[NYC_SKP]

5. Food is good, and tools are good, and anything of true usefulness...

I'm thinking of food and coupons for food also as gifts.

I don't have figures on this, but from what I've seen among my family and friends, something like 1/2 of gifts are not particularly liked or useful or necessary.

Junk v Tool, very clever!

Brings to mind large and small xmas packages.

[Deja Q]

2. It counters all the negative news items about the economy being in worse shape than a star gone nova

Also, as the last year has shown, if the US economy goes down, so does everyone else's and if one terror attack in Mumbai is Earth-shattering, that's an ant-free picnic by comparison to what very well might happen if the US economy shatters. Or at least to all the gloom'n'doom one can read in the General Discussion forum about the US economy and what might happen (despite so many predictions having turned out false, if a broken clock can be right once in a while, maybe the doom'n'gloomy nutters will have their day too - let's hope not.)

For once, I'll be very happy reading all the drool-fests over "Black Friday".

[mopinko]

6. why is- people plan on spending less this xmas- news? every year

every fucking year of my adult life this story has taken up news space. every fucking year. when are they going to say- people are making budgets, but they know they wont stick to them. or- people are pledging to go balls to the walls at walmart today.