The Perl News section *is* unreadable most of the time now. Literally. Because there is no news, thus nothing to read. I completely take your point and in general agree but the update posted was significant, Perl boosterism is more important now than a few years ago, and if we're averaging two pieces of news a week or less over time (40 Perl News posts this year, week 34 of the year)... we could stand a little more before we start stopping down the pipeline.
If anything, this should be a call to slackers like me to post more news. There is a fair amount going around on other lists and such.