Enough is Enough

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I get a little annoyed when the news media goes overboard in their reporting. The latest coverage of the death of Michael Jackson, the divorce of Jon and Kate and the affair of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, just to mention a few items, has been overdone. Enough already!

Although I was never a fan of Michael Jackson, he was a superstar performer and his death was certainly newsworthy. But for the coverage to go on and on, particularly on CNN where every reporter had to put their spin on things was just too much to take. It’s kind of ironic that several radio stations that had stopped playing his songs following the molestation “allegations” suddenly found it okay to jump on the bandwagon with playing them again.

As for Jon and Kate, I could never understand to begin with why they should have had a TV show following their lives and the lives of their 8 kids and who cares whether they are now getting a divorce. All this does is add to their TV ratings as the show carries on “reminiscing” about the past 10 years of their marriage!

So Governor Mark Sanford had an affair with a woman in Argentina? Big deal! Was he giving away state secrets while sleeping with this woman? The fact that he was a prominent “family values” type of politician might say something about his morals but it doesn’t affect the way he was doing his job and yet there are cries out for his resignation. Hell, if all politicians had to resign because of questionable behaviour there probably wouldn’t be too many left. Maybe that would be a good thing!

In any event, the fact that the media has to spend so much of their time reporting this stuff indicates that they aren’t really interested in reporting on “real news” but rather in items that are “sensational.” There was a time when this sort of thing was left to the tabloids and “reporters” like Springer or Geraldo etc.

that’s the way I see it

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