For naysayers (like myself) who bemoan today's obsession with celebrity news and relative disinterest in "hard" news, particularly among those under 30, the Wall Street Journal offers this clever column that argues that the sky isn't falling.

As the writers state:

If a time machine could whisk us back to ancient Sumeria, we bet you we'd find the stampers of the Daily Cuneiform pulling their beards and muttering that kids these days are interested almost exclusively in frivolous things: the hot new Gilgamesh adventure, putting away too many bowls of fermented barley beverage, and the doings of other youth, as opposed to worrying about crumbling canals and what the Hittites are up to.