Television, radio, Internet and paper news suck really badly.

Last week end a video surfaced on the local news, it was a young seven year old boy, driving what looks like the family car, on a dirt road, with the whole family on board. He is driving at a whopping 40km/h, but none of the car's occupants are wearing a seat belt.

His father is sitting next to him with a camera, filming, and on the back seat there are two more children and an adult woman, presumably the mom. Everyone is cheering him on like he is some hero.

It was later discovered that the dirt road is a private road and is thereby not under the jurisdiction of our Transport Ministry, hence, what they were doing was perfectly legal.

As such, I have no problems with it either, they are doing 40km/h on a straight, wide, dirt road. I'll admit that personally I might have been wearing a seat belt but again, they are not on a public road so it's not mandatory.

The kid could have been driving a 4x4 motorbike, or a vehicle so defective that the Ministry will not issue it a registration license, like an old Jeep or maybe a Sidekick, there are hundreds...

Later still, it was discovered that the video, had been on youtube for two years, so now the kid is actually nine years old. So why did it make the news now?

Simple.

There is nothing to talk about if any interest.

In May, we were "promised" a plague that didn't really happen, yes some people died of H1N1 but in terms of percentage, not any more people that would die from a regular flu.

H1N1 is just a normal flu. It can be defeated by our immune systems as long as we are relatively healthy. I can see how someone with lung cancer or emphysema could be in dire straights if afflicted by this new flu, but other than the regular suspects, we should all massively be OK. Regardless of what the news says, we will not all die by Friday, at dusk.

Last summer we had the Listeria alarm, where Maple Leaf almost went under because it was discovered that some of their meats, and also some cheeses at large, were "contaminated" with the Listeria Monocytogenes bacteria.

This summer? Nothing. Nada. No Listeria, no Salmonella, nothing toxic has become loose, not even Kraft Dinner.

There is a serious problem when a boxer, not even a well known one, dies in Brazil, and it makes the top news for two full weeks.

When a chlorine leak causes a few kids to have to rinse themselves off properly at a public pool is the day's top story, it's been a slow news day.

When there is talk of the Quebec Nordiques rejoining the NHL (will never happen), and it makes the headlines, it's been a slow week.

So, because there is nothing menacing, nothing they can use to scare us into thinking that by Saturday morning, we will all be, well, guano, they start digging.

They caught Earl Jones, who was the most wanted man in Quebec for almost a month. More wanted than the guy who kidnapped Cedrika Provencher, more wanted even than a Lamborghini Galliardo, or a Nintendo Wii.

So now?

Can't they all go on vacations?

No, apparently it will rain.