News Lets us Down Again
October 16th, 2009
Arianna Huffington sums it up:
After a commercial break, Ed asked me about the story. I told him that, for me, once the boy had been found, there was no story — just tele-voyeurism. Why continue the wall-to-wall coverage of a story that had turned into a non-story — on a political show — during a week when health care, financial reform, and Afghanistan are all at the tipping point?