Is Digg becoming a tabloid?

With sensationalist and other rather stupid stories on the rise and fewer good stories by the day, I must say digg is starting to disappoint. As an example here is a story that just made the digg frontpage: “Sneaker makers are seeing big dollars in little feet” … frontpage? really? ok…

Or how about this one I found the other day: [BREAKING] Scientists confirm the use of cheap sunglasses linked to eye cancer, followed by another one a few days later: [BREAKING] Use of flip flops linked to feet cancer… see my point? They’re tagged BREAKING and all. Also, we all know irresponsible exposure to the sun may cause skin cancer.

More examples! how about this one: “Study links hours in front of TV to Obesity”  oh, really?? wow I never imagined that slacking on a couch eating away and not getting exercise would get me fat. People, we can do better than this.

I can go on and on forever with examples, but I just want to point out that Digg is rapidly becoming into a stupid news site, it used to be better than this.