Monday, January 09, 2006

The problem with 24-hour news...

I was sitting around the apartment reading and I had CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer" on, but muted. I saw this super, "Construction worker rescued after falling into deep hole." So I thought to myself, "Really...Is that the story your going to have on at the bottom of the hour...Really???" So I popped on the audio and listened in. I mean there must be a better reason why they are covering this story, especially right at 4:30pm.

Nope...some construction worker, in Las Vegas, fell into a thirty foot trench. That was it that was the whole story and CNN ran with it for a good minute - minute-twenty with a live shot from a Vegas station and everything. I think this is the problem with 24-hour news.

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