What has happened to network news programs these days? It seems lately, like maybe in the past year or two, they have started devoting sizable portions of their programming to news events involving celebrities that get stretched out way beyond their natural life. Right now it is the death and aftermath of Michael Jackson. And it's so sensationalist too! I'm not talking about the Fox network (which I expect to be sensationalist); I'm talking about NBC, CBS, etc. Every morning as I prepare to go to work, I watch the news. Up to now, I have always watched the Today show. But the show is too full of talk about MJ's death, MJ's estate, MJ's kids, MJ's cause of death, etc. Yes, I agree, to an extent, some of this is newsworthy, but much of it is not! It's full of speculation and to a large degree, gossip and chit chat. I have tired of it, and I will now only watch CNN in the morning before I go to work. I will probably find out that they, too, do the same with their programming! But there just happens to be an historic confirmation hearing going on right now involving a woman of Puerto Rican descent who has been picked to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. It saddens me to think that the executives at NBC, CBS, etc., have decided that we are more interested in celebrity news than political news and thus have opted to show us only little snippets of information regarding the confirmation hearings. One definitely has to tune into cable news networks to get informative news it seems.
On a brighter note, I promise to have a food-related post next time!
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I agree! CNN from now on!
Yeah, I have pretty much stopped watching the news for this reason. This is why so many people depend on the Daily Show for their news.
Just as a side note, I've kept more or less up to date with Sotomayor just from Yahoo's main page. Which is really surprising, but they shuffle between several "top stories" and one of them has actually been Sotomayor for hte past few days. And then it'll be like "Why Bruce Jennings had cosmetic surgery" and crap. Weird, but it works.
I actually saw that headline on Yahoo about Bruce Jennings having cosmetic surgery and it had a little picture of him with it. I think the picture might have been of him after the cosmetic surgery but I couldn't tell. I guess if I couldn't tell, then the surgery probably wasn't too good!
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