What makes news newsworthy?
An elderly woman went missing in the desert southwest, which is sad.
She wasn’t particularly noteworthy.
She was related to a famous person.
But I am completely in awe of how this normal grandmother became the singular focus of world news.
Every station, 24 hours per day, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, and the rest with full-time staff in her yard, helicopters overhead…every type of police organization present, for…