An issue that needs a-dress-ed

I’m not sure what this says about humanity,  but I don’t think it’s good.

The Internet’s Buzzfeed posted a photo of a dress and then asked readers to tell them what colors it was. It was an exercise in self-induced illusions.

Publisher Dao Nguyen said the viral post attracted 28 million views in four hours. Buzzfeed had to increase its capacity 40% to handle the traffic.

ISIS is beheading and torching those who don’t agree to their Kool Aid beliefs. The U.S. still has military in Afghanistan and elsewhere. America's leaders act like spoiled brats in the pockets of billionaires while democracy is on the sidelines.

And a dress draws more attention from millions of people?

This is a far cry from Woodward and Bernstein bringing down a President. Have we all gone mad?

I think Lupita Nyong’o’s 6,000-pearl-studded Oscar dress that reportedly was stolen, then returned, is more in line with the kind of news we would have covered at Ol’ Blue.

I guess Internet “journalists” think differently.