Don't Update Things That Don't Change

One of my pet peeves is when you get an update from any medium about something that has not actually updated.

Example:  ESPN breaking news update:  "Nick Saban is continuing to coach Alabama."

No shit, that is just the status quo.  He gets paid as much as pros and is treated like a king AND just won a championship.  I bet Notre Dame has a football team next year, too.  Let's start the breaking news sounder when there is actually new news.  Maybe we can create a stopwatch sounder for non-news that is not breaking.

I got on this rant after seeing yet another article form Yahoo! about the richest zip codes in America.  That reminded me of an article from a few weeks ago about the richest cities in America.  That reminded me of  an older article about the richest counties in America.  That reminded me of an even older article about the richest neighborhoods in America.  Affluent places or home values do not change very fast.  This is a good article every three years and then only if something changed drastically.  No one is in awe over the fact that the top 5 richest cities are in California or that the top two zip codes swapped spots because Mark Zuckerberg decided to expand his mansion across city lines.

"SEC - good at football.  Bad at life."