Speaking for Optimist (without permission), I don't believe her original quote was intended for you Ianus. [Thanks for always keeping us up to date on the more obscure articles] The news articles that are posted in this section are quite helpful, whether they are positive, negative, or in between.

Instead, it was a reference for others that fail to use what you had mentioned up above, LOGIC. They fail to brush off some negativity and take it to heart as impending doom, because they use emotion rather than logic to discern the message behind what is being said.

Sometimes reading the comments from a posted article in the news room is worse than listening to Fall Out Boy or [insert other EMO band here].