Is this really 'news'?
The BBC claims to be the world's most trusted international news broadcaster
. I take this to mean that it broadcasts news of international importance. If so, how on earth does this non-story make the home page?
For the first time, a black girl has won a US spelling contest.* Big effing deal.
Bloody hell, I'd heard that black lives matter, but I hadn't realised that the pandering went so far as their ability to spell; at least not as international headline news. We must be entering slow news season. Should I contact the BBC to report that I had a boiled egg for breakfast? People need to know this shit.
What the article doesn't do, however, is explain why the fuck merkans call a spelling contest a bee
in the first place, which at least would have made it mildly educational.
* Actually, Zaila Avant-garde isn't the first black girl to win the tournament—that honour went to Jamaican Jody-Anne Maxwell in 1998—she's just the first black American to win. All of which leaves this non-news article even less newsworthy.
Same shit, different year.
Entertainment & Arts offers a B-list TV personality denying he's a groomer. European news highlights the use of teenagers in Russian propaganda. And, in the US & Canada, a kid can spell. (shrug)
I guess it's all about priorities. Still, at least no one got shot, so that's nice.