I'm done

while I was trying to get some news this morning from the tee vee machine, I realized I'm done. I no longer want to hear stories of the latest american tragedy replayed over and over again with no salient information just a way to fill airtime. When did the Media get so lazy, if a story requires some leg work and doesn't come with salacious details, or murder or kidnapping and an opportunity to talk for hours without saying anything informative they just can't be bothered.

While watching MSNBC this morning, some blonde spokesmodel was describing a mass casualty attack in South Carolina,(i think) and used the present tense while describing the attack. When did the basic rules of grammar disappear? I'm done, I'll stick to watching certain news shows at certain times, KO, Maddow, The News Hour, Jon Stewart and for real information I'll continue to access the bbc online but by and large I realize no one is reporting the news, no one is doing indepth analysis except the fake news guys. when did we get so lazy as nation that we don't want to hear the truth we want tabloid news all the time.

When I was taking classes at Hunter College in NY in the early '80's Ted Turner came to my journalism class to talk about his start up-Cable News Network. the idea was to delve into the issues and take a real look at the news not just the standard airbrushed 2 minute soundbite you got on the Networks evening news. Now CNN is 24 hours of tabloid stenography, this morning, they were covering the death of Anna Nicole Smith. Hate to break to you-I didn't care about her when she was alive.
Honestly, I didn't even know who she was until she died and we had 24 hour coverage of it for a month and guess what? I still don't care.

I want someone to cover the news. I want a comprehensive look at the omnibus spending bill; I want the bs over earmarks and pork barrel spending to end. It is one percent of the the overall bill; let's look at the real expenses. Also, I'm sick of listening to the 'conservative' viewpoint 3:1 over democrats. They 'conservatives' LOST, they should be relegated to the sidelines until they can offer an alternative to any policy that has been put forth by the Obama legislation. Since all they have to offer right now are failed policies. See Boehner's idea to stop spending reference Herbert Hoover and the worsening of the Great Depression. (Shouldn't our legislators have some grasp of history??) Until they have ideas and not ideology they should be relegated to cheap seats; maybe then they would realize they have to come up with an argument other than NO.