Diversions don’t hide bad news

The other day it was the $130,000 sports cars as Page 1 news in Business. (“British guns, Italian roses,” Rumble Seat, July 18.)

And then we had Candy Spelling’s $47,000,000 condo. (“Condo sells for $2,848 [per foot],” July 22.)

Is this diversion supposed to take our attention away from unemployment statistics and other gloomy economic, war and other bad news? If so, it’s not working.

George Davis-Benton

Los Angeles