I was flipping through the channels a few days ago and all I saw on every news channel was either something about the crazy NASA astronaut or Anna Nicole Smith. Reporting that kind of stuff is okay, but going over it constantly for several days is simply annoying. Isn’t there anything else to talk about that is more important than a former playmate dieing or an astronaut going off the deep end?
They could be reporting truly important events that are occurring across the globe, but instead they choose to report every fact and rumor about these people that they can possibly find over several days. Apparently they believe these are the kind of stories that Americans want to hear about, which may be true since a lot of people in this country are obsessed with what happens in the lives of celebrities. Even Lou Dobbs, the host of the CNN show “Lou Dobbs Tonight” was so annoyed by the continuing coverage of Anna Nicole Smith’s death that he announced at the beginning of his program that he would not be covering the death of Anna Nicole Smith at all. The media of today simply kills these stories by covering them so thoroughly that it just gets to be an annoyance.
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