s Arnold Schwarzenegger's Out-of-Wedlock Child a Legitimate News Story?

Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger with son Patrick Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver and Christopher Schwarzenegger watch during NBA All-Star Saturday Night in 2008. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)

Doing our Morning Splash post this morning, I was confronted with one of those journalistic quandaries that comes up whenever a story presents itself you know the public is ready, willing, and able to devour like seven-layer chocolate cake, but which seems to have negligible value in terms of adding to the public discourse.
In the daily digest of news that Morning Splash is, where to rank the report that former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has admitted fathering an out-of-wedlock child with someone from his household staff? As of this writing, CNN and ABC have given it top-story status on its web page, MSNBC puts it at No. 2, and Fox and CBS are giving it prominent play. Even B