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[juils]

This story popped up on my iGoogle homepage:

'Text Rage' Leads to Alleged Brutal Teen Beating

Basically, a 15-year-old who found his older brother hanging from a tree outside a local church the year before participates in a texting conversation with a girl from his high school (who he's never met before) about his relationship with his girlfriend.

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[talldean]

Advances in communications technology - the new media - make it possible for us to hear about the worst of the worst, non-stop, because that's what's popular, and that's what virally propagates across our network.

That said, media outlets don't focus on newsbite-sized happy news; human interest stories are filler, and boring at that length.