Some Real News, Please!

After my shift today as I sipped a Golden Margarita, the news broadcast of the NBC affiliate in Philadelphia was on one of the screens at the bar.  I swear that for a half hour (or time it took to finish the cocktail) all I saw were images of bin Laden, Schwarzenegger, bin Laden, Lohan, Trump, bin Laden, May 21, 2011 end of the world, (featuring a PT Cruiser driving around Rehoboth Beach plastered with banners proclaiming "The End" sponsored by "Family Christian Radio" - how embarrassing!) Palin, Boehner (weeping, of course) and, bin Laden. 

Thank G*d there was no sound. 

News Flash to the media:  Like Elvis and Anna Nicole, bin Laden is STILL dead and 24 hour coverage got old a week ago. He is under the sea playing with Sponge-bob and Nemo, perhaps. Wanna send a camera crew?

Seriously.

Could we have some real news from around the country not involving idiots, people behaving badly, or dead people?  Ya' know like, real people dealing with the bloated Mississippi River, winning or losing everything they own (we lose too, big time!), the upcoming goat rodeo in Washington, DC, the investigations of the banksters, folks going bankrupt or losing their homes (remember them?), and the war on women's health???  Just askin'.

A rush hour traffic update finally broke the spell.  I knocked back the remains of the Golden, grabbed my things and headed for home.


Let me reiterate that I have no TV service at home; not even basic cable.  I get all my news online and find it mystifying that I have to go to news sources outside of the country for the real news of the day. It simply boggles the mind.

And so it goes.
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