People ask: why isn't there more
good news? The stock answer
to which is: Because good news is boring. But actually,
common
is the more accurate adjective. The norm is for the earth not to
quake, the train not to wreck, the teens to grow up to be taxpaying
adults.... Bad things make news because bad things are
uncommon.
-- Shawn Hubler. Los Angeles Times 5/29/2000 pB1