Robert Krulwich's stories, on NPR, CBS and ABC, are neither wacky nor pompously serious. He explains, though, that if you try to occupy the territory between wacky and serious, there are dangers. (6 minutes)
The fact that was repeated about Katherine Massey was that she had written an letter to the newspaper calling for gun control the year before she was murdered.
Many couples eventually encounter this problem: One person in the couple trots out the same story over and over, and the other person has to just listen.