What is the deal with the news?

This is a random rant, but I haven't made a blog post in so long that I feel like it might reignite my blogging motivation.

I was browsing Google News just a few minutes ago, and I saw this (automatically generated based on web popularity, or however they choose to generate the main page) article: Psycho tries to open jet door in air. Basically, some 20-year-old Asian guy was flipping out, messed with the jet door, and was restrained. The jet door requires "special training" to open, so there was no concern of any catastrophic result.

What? I don't get it. Why is this news-worthy? And for there to be 202 articles written on it? (For scale, popular news topics on Google News list anywhere from 500-2000 articles (e.g., that whole Vick thing)). Nothing happened at all. There must be millions of situations and events and actions that match that level of newsworthiness every day, in the U.S. alone.

Could someone please reply with a clever analysis of humans/the news/the world that might explain this madness?