Okay, WHY is MSNBC showing 10 minutes of Woods' car on a flatbed truck on the highway?

[George II]

This is news?

[Ocelot II]

1. Tiger Woods' accident has been covered non-stop all day today.

Maybe there was other news, like Senate hearings, but I guess we won't get to hear about those because this is so much more important.

[George II]

3. For four hours we've been hearing "we don't have any details". This is sad coverage today.

[OnDoutside]

2. June 17, 1994

[George II]

5. I just told my wife, "OJ isn't in the car!"

[radius777]

19. +1. It's the OJ-ification of news.

The viewers of MSNBC don't care about this stuff, but for some reason the 'suits' think we do.

There are networks like HLN and E! which cover celeb stories they could put this shit on - nobody else cares/wants to see this stuff.

[OnDoutside]

22. It brings it all back though ! I had just checked into my room at

the Woodbridge Sheraton at Isjelin, NJ, and switched on the TV to the view of the white bronco being followed by all those police cars !

[George II]

25. Hey, I've been to that hotel, many years ago for a weekend at Monmouth Park (rewards points!)

[OnDoutside]

26. Nice busy hotel, I used to stay there when the pharma company

I worked for sent me to head office, although that visit was for pleasure as I went to see Ireland beat Italy in the World Cup in Giants stadium the following day. An all action weekend v!

[bluestarone]

4. Yea no kidding! Like watching,

OJ Simpson all over again?

[pidge]

6. Slow news day,I guess.

[George II]

9. Yes, a confirmation hearing, two confirmation votes, and a hearing on the Capitol riots.....

...I guess not "sexy" enough for them.

[Hekate]

11. If you call Senate hearings on the attempted overthrow of the US government "slow news"...

[Pongo]

7. I'm much happier hearing this than coverage of the former guy.

[patricia92243]

16. yes!

[Hekate]

8. I dunno. They had the wreck lying on its side for 4 hours, looping the same info they had ...

...garnered in the first 20 minutes.

I sincerely hope Rachel breaks ranks and gives us 10 minutes on the injured golfer and 50 minutes on the Senate hearings. Didn’t someone try to overthrow the US government, or something?

[George II]

10. NEWS FLASH! The truck carrying Woods' car just pulled into the junkyard!

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

12. Only news in the world dontchaknow, compound fractures in both legs, he wont be walking for awhile

[White Fox]

13. Trum* is no longer

generating news. Cable news reverts to 1990 mode.

[Blue Owl]

14. You sure that isn't footage of Ted Cruz' political career?

[frazzled]

15. They could spend 3 minutes reading

A Ferlinghetti poem.

But that’s our country ... a sports figure crash merits more attention than an important cultural figure who just died.

[dflprincess]

17. Now it's the lead story on the CBS news

Ridiculous.

[mcar]

18. ...

[mucifer]

20. I bet Rachel says nothing on this story

[OnDoutside]

23. Stability in a world gone mad.....

[doc03]

21. They have 24 hours to fill nt

[uponit7771]

24. The CP are calling 1/6 a insurrection ... that in and of itself should be 23 hours of news

... seeing the M$M has been calling it a 'riot".

This is not a slow news day

[Talitha]

27. Boring yes, but it still beats the hell out of them quoting Pissolini's tweets..

And it would be nice if they'd cover more global news. LOTS more.

[moondust]

28. Global news?

That would require hiring a bunch of reporters and that would hurt their profit margins. More profitable to hire a handful of people who can't stop talking.

[jalan48]

29. He's a media star and the media wants us to know it.

[zipplewrath]

30. It's content

The 24 hour news channels are desperate for content almost everyday. They'll beat one story to death to avoid having to create additional content. Give them a self packaged story like this and they'll ride it for hours. A half hour news conference will be covered in its entirety. Even CBS evening news covered it for about 8 minutes at the opening of their 22 minute broadcast.

[rickford66]

31. I heard one of them say "We're not going to speculate"

As they were speculating !

[Takket]

32. if it bleeds, it leads........ SOP for news networks

[moonscape]

33. My sister who has lived in

Paris for 50 years, identifies her US visits not by year but by what news obsession was going on at the time, i.e. ‘We did that during the baby-Jessica-in-the-well trip’

[lindysalsagal]

34. TV is all ratings. Period.

[healthnut7]

35. Brings back memories!

It really reminded me of the TV coverage from a helicopter following OJ Simpson down the freeway!! It was close to the same minus all the police cars in pursuit!!