Since I started using my elliptical machine a few weeks ago I've been watching Fox News several times a week... is it just me, or has the station turned into all-missing-people all-the-time? It's like watching the back of a milk carton. Despite the sympathy I feel for the families of the handful of missing people that are highlighted, there is other news that will impact my life much more, that I'm far more interested in. Do we need yet another report on the legal status of Joren van der Sloot and the difference between the American and Dutch legal systems? How about instead doing profiles about the half-dozen jurists President Bush is considering for the Supreme Court?
Oh well, they'll broadcast whatever gets the ratings I guess.
I only have basic cable in my new apartment. As a result, my viewing patterns (which used to be split between FOX NEWS, C-SPAN, and LAW & ORDER) have come to focus entirely on C-SPAN. All politics/government/public affairs, all the time, no added filters, textures, colors, or flavors, much of it in REAL time, no Michael Jackson or milk carton stories.
You're right on Michael. What a shame. I think Gretta was making a run on O'Reilly, so he figured he needed to copy her stuff. Sad