It really is shame what some “News” organizations will pass off as news these days. I mean, really a shame. And the real problem lies, not in the fact that they do it, but that it isn’t a surprise when they do. It’s expected behavior now, for CNN, MSNBC, and FOX (faux) News to report on Britney Spears’ haircut, and Paris Hilton’s < insert alcohol related misstep here >, and the up-to-the-second whereabouts of Anna Nicole’s corpse. Thanks in no small part to the Associated Press.
It’s insane. 
And it gets even worse when you throw in the grand-daddy of insane topics - politics. It is amazing that politicians can get away with e-molesting minors for years when we know about the drugs that their brother-in-law’s mother’s cousin did, including which nostril they ingested it through. Somehow, and through some fault of my own… I know about bush’s college parties, I know his daughters’ criminal records, I know the occupations of countless parents of politicians and I know how their parents came to the United States, what obstacles those long-dead people had to overcome, and probably how they died. Why do I know all of this, because someone, somewhere, thought the information was news-worthy, and decided to spend part of their short life on this planet writing about it.
All of this has led to a well prepared media that is ripe and ready for the circus that is Democratic Presidential Hopeful Barack Obama. I swear, I now know more about Obama’s family genealogy than I do about my own. This morning, both CNN and Fox had a story posted on their front page with this headline: Obama’s White Ancestors May Have Owned Slaves 1 2
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