I don't anger easily, but....
 

This Anna Nicole Smith coverage is trying me. I have the news on in my office all day at background volumes but it's off right now. The TV is lucky that I turned it off as the other option was pitching it against the wall in a rage. I'm not kidding around, I'm tangibly upset. It is both annoying and insulting that they play this BS. But what has me even more upset is that most people must care or they wouldn't be covering it.

Man I need a drink already today.

I can tolerate about 30 seconds a day of Anna Nicole coverage. That's about what I feel her death warrants--and only that because of the very bizzarre stuff surrounding it.

I haven't really watched the news since her death because of the extensive coverage...

Why? What's going on? I don't see anything in yesterday's paper (LA Times), haven't read today's yet. It does somehow seem messed up that we have all these problems in the US and the world and we focus on some infamous woman. I dial it out. Didn't even know it was still an item.

You need to change the channel from FOX...............

CNN is covering the Walter Reed Hospital problems, but you probably don't want to hear about that either.

Yup, the sad core of every damn superficially stupid media coverage is that people seemingly are interested in it.

Homo Trivial Sapience..

Oh yes,they all break in their coverage every now and again.

It's the money ($574 million) that gets me. Everything is about the money - I can just see it in the interested parties' eyes. I bet no one gives a rat's ass about the little girl.

Do you have access to news media outside your borders? Try the BBC or the CBC.

CNN evening commentators....
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Can't they do better than Glenn Beck and Nancy Grace? Yecch.....

That's why I don't watch the news. These days the news is as serious a provider of info as a Harlequin romance novel. It's all about sensationalism an the same crap that drives the "reality" shows. It's main target is the average idiot.

I hear ya!
I have gotten to the point that I don't even turn on the TV. Of course, her d@mn picture is all over MSN too, looks like I am going to have to change my browser home page as well!

If I watch in the evening, it's Matthews and Olberman on MSNBC.

Ratings.

I haven't looked at any of the Anna Nicole or Brittany threads here at Pelican, but they're here, and have a bunch of traffic. Even the car guys can't seem to look away from the ugliness in other's lives.

Naw, we're just waiting for someone to repost the snatch shots while Z-man isn't looking....

Dave....I do like Olbermann. He isn't exactly "impartial", but not as pompous as what's on FOX.........(and he is funny to boot)

In truth, I do tune in the last minutes of BillO just to catch the mail he reads.

And what for news?

Len:

This deserves repeating:

"It really is no mystery

Whether politics or History

The thing you gotta know is

EVERYTHING is show biz."

"Hitler" in "The Producers"

I get my news from Pelican OT. I trust you guys more than Anderson Cooper or Lou Dobbs.

Everything, from my local paper to the networks to cable to the net.

This just in: news leaked from the Howard K Stern media team that Britney Spears was paid by the Anna Nicole Smith family to shave her head to take media coverage away from the circus that is becoming the NEW Anna Nicole Smith show.

When confronted with this information, the Anna Nicole Smith family responded by stating, "That is not true. There is no way that we would do such a thing. By the way, we would like to take this time to release some compromising pictures of Justin Timberlake and K-Fed taken last week at a dingy hotel room in Pittsburgh...

Hooray for Hollywood... :rolleyes:

-Z