...how will it be reported by Global Good News? I mean, should it be listed under "Positive Trends," "Success Stories," or "Flops?"
Whichever category they choose to put the belated wedding and birth announcements in, will they put an eight-year-old "publication date" on them, so that someone here can claim that they were there all along, and that the TM community just "missed" them? :-) More likely, it will never be mentioned at all. When in doubt as to how to present news that is difficult to spin as Good News, pretend that it doesn't exist. That's worked so far...