C'mon

I have finally sworn off morning news - I refuse to pay for the level of cable that would provide BBC, and watching anything else just makes me embarrassed for the "journalists."

It was this week that did it. Anna Nicole Smith - her death a "tragedy"???? Really? We hit 3118 dead soldiers this week in Iraq, many many more dead Iraqi citizens, for what? THAT is a tragedy. The death of a very stupid, perpetually drunk, self-indulgent golddigger is not.

And the astronaut "love" triangle - seriously, this was on for an hour straight the other morning on CNN. What is the fascination? Do people really believe that intelligent, well-educated people can't be mentally ill? All of us working in corporate america know that mental illness is quite common among 'achievers.' And why is it a "love" triangle - sounds pretty much like a one-way obsession to me. Love and obsession - completely unrelated - but a lot of people make that mistake. Still not worth covering. Leave that sensationalistic crap reporting to Nancy Grace and her fellow wackos on Fox, et al.

It snowed something like 150 inches in Oswego, New York since Sunday - that I had to find out by going to the website. It's possible that they covered this on CNN - but it's really hard to get to stuff that is actually important and newsworthy when you just have an hour to watch and there are things happening in celebrityworld.