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

[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.