Massive riots in Egypt, a terrible tragedy in Arizona and nothing on Cable news.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

CNN, Faux, (GE)MSNBC are all showing crime dramas or reality programming. What a joke. BBC World Service has been covering it.

[The Straight Story]

1. They only have 24 hours a day to report 'news'

Just not enough time between them all to cover such things when there are celebrities they have to cover too.

[SheilaT]

2. Why depending on such won't leave a person very well informed.

I have no TV, but I read a lot, including on-line, and I don't feel like I miss a great deal.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

3. I'm not depending on it.

However a lot of people do. There was just a press conference that I would have liked to have seen. I'm sure they'll get to it after they talk about what Kanye West named his kid.

[SheilaT]

6. Precisely why I don't bother

with any sort of regular news.

I wind up missing certain information that way, however. It was at least a year after Michael Jackson died that I learned the networks had all gone to wall to wall coverage of his death that day. I was truly horrified when I learned that. With all due respect, Michael Jackson did not deserve that kind of coverage.

I think it's just a whole lot easier, and cheaper, to do what they're currently doing. and it's why our national debate invariably gets sucked up into something trivial (Edward Snowden is a hero! No, he's a traiter!) rather than the actual issues involved in so many things.

[Crabby Appleton]

4. CNNI has been covering riots

right now a live report 1:00am, 7:00am Egyption time.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

5. I don't get CNN International.

But they do a very good job. I've been watching Al Jazeera for Egypt coverage.

[JI7]

7. it's holiday week, they have their priorities