Child clothes 'fail to block sun'

A news item from the BBC says that children's clothes may not be providing proper protection from UV rays.

This is quite an important bit of information, no doubt, but I would not consider it on the same level as, say, the violence in Iraq or the election in Germany. But the RSS feed for BBC News (Front Page, World Edition) makes no such distinction [*].

Some sort of hierarchy or prioritising seems to be required. I think Google News addresses this somewhat by ranking news items based on their popularity, but that carries with it its own limitations, leading to Michael Jackson's antics being given more publicity than they deserve. The price one has to pay for choosing which items one wants to read about is to wade through all of them, I guess.

[*] Here is a link to much more pressing problems being faced by children in India and other developing countries.

I think I am slipping up: a post about news items without the obligatory, gratuitous DC-bashing? So here goes: DC doesn't even bother to give permanent URL addresses to their stories, thereby making them stale the very next day.