It always sells {cnn.com}

Sex-related and reality character stories hold the top 3 positions on CNN’s popular story widget. Death toll articles are the 4th, 5th, and 10th most read items on CNN today. Who to blame?

1. The news provider, for giving users the option to read such meaningless stories, or
2. The public for their obsession with wasting time
3. The subjects of the stories, for making themselves ‘newsworthy’