So, I’m sitting in the Buffalo Niagara Airport, waiting to pick up the First Husband on his return from sailing Miami to Nassau. I decide to go have coffee while I’m waiting, and I start idly watching CNN on the overhead TV in the coffee-shop.
Let’s face it, there’s a lot going on in the world, right? We’re up the proverbial creek without a paddle on the environment, there’s a genocide going on in Darfur while the world stands idly by, soldiers are dying needlessly in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc. etc . etc.
So what’s the lead item on the CNN news hour? Britney Spears shaved her head and got a couple of tattoos! The second item on the news, following way behind all the expert analysis of why Britney would do such a thing, was the Congressional debate on Iraq.
Is this what CNN has become? When Chinese students gathered in Tiananmen Square, CNN was there. When the Berlin Wall fell, CNN was there. There was a time, not all that long ago, when CNN was the great white hope of democracy, bringing the good news of freedom to all corners of the earth. And then, alas, Fox News came along, and it all went to ratshit.
The human race is going to hell in a handbasket.