Just what I was thinking............

The two video clips shown in class may have been lampoons of tv news, but they did contain kernels of what many of us may think. In discussion, the Wolf Blitzer clip. Seriously, there are more important things going on in the world where Anna Nicole's body was going to be buried. We have a major war going on! There is an AIDS crisis in Africa! Yet people still care more about what stupid thing Brittany Spears is going to do next, or when Nicole Richie and Joel Madden will get married. We have to face a fact: many people just get their news from the tv. TV ratings make the wolrd go 'round. Nicole and Brittany are more interesting than a war report, which is more newsworthy. Now if only the newscasters could find a creative way to make war interesting? How sad is it that I have to even pose that question?