Posted 9:32 AM by Gene

Romy links to an article about how to improve sports news (as if that's possible with all the screaming millionaires) -- and he may not have wanted to, judging from the first two grafs:

On the day Paris Hilton was released from jail, I watched something that was both predictably depressing and depressingly predictable: Three national news channels -- MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News -- were simultaneously running segments that expressed outrage over the amount of TV coverage Paris Hilton was receiving.

I do not need to explain why this is idiotic, as this is the kind of modern idiocy every American understands completely. In a way, it actually seems more ridiculous to waste energy complaining about it. And if that is indeed the case -- if it is now a waste of time to feel disenchanted about inane media coverage that reflexively criticizes itself for inanity -- it probably means it's too late for the conventional news media to ever be good again. It's entirely possible that the mainstream coverage of current news events has become too splintered and too misdirected to ever recover its value; it probably can't be saved, and we just need to accept that reality and find alternative means for learning about the world.

A-MEN, brother.

Recognizing, as it is, that a better way is hardly likely.