Trending: Online News Outlet Scrapes the Bottom of the Barrel for Stories

Since being taken over by AOL, the news source, Patch.com has relied more on lurid, unsavory, and shocking stories gleaned from the far reaches of the internet, rather than local news stories.  Writing staff was drastically cut after the AOL buyout and editors have had to stretch to cover expanded regional beats for local news.  Since advertisers want online space with lots of viewers, Patch has decided to play the National Enquirer card to attract a spicier audience.  Your Trolls, Your Skinheads, Your Religious Zealots, Your Conspiracy Thearists.  Because every hit is more advertising money.  I've put together some suggested headlines for them as follows.  "Man runs over possum -- realizes it's his brother." "Squirrels tell couple to leave Yosemite-Now", "Heaven is Full -- You're Going to Hell",