I was watching FOX News the other morning. The teaser just before the top of the hour was a school shooting in Lousiana...details to come. In the next hour there was not another word about Lousiana. As the hour began, we were told of a bus stop shooting in Los Angeles...Turkey has invaded Northern Iraq...a plane crashed in Los Angeles, a light plane fell right in a neighborhood...Another shooting in Tennessee...Israel has launched 60 rockets in two days at Hamas targets... one in six sixth graders have started drinking...and a "nanny-cam" has caught an evil b**** throwing infants around and carrying them by their bunched up jammies. All this in a five minute segment at the top of the hour. What did we hear for the next 55 minutes?

Yale is drawing unwanted attention because of explicit sex shows on campus. Three or four minutes.

Victoria's Secret is out to change their image, seems they have gotten too sexy and want to "clean up" their corporate face. This was a good 7 or 8 minuted discussion with LOTS of clips of what they want to change away from.

Two inarticulate bimbos claim they are "too pretty" to fly Southwest. They started some crap at 30,000 feet and blamed it on the "middle-aged" flight attendant who was "giving them language." A good five minutes. Then the lawyers and "experts" come on and give their opinions as to the relevance and merits of this incident, legally speaking. Another five minutes.

The rest of the hour was devoted to election-oriented comment...a lot of talk about polls...did you know that white men may swing this election? Who is benefiting from their spouses' campaign efforts...who is being dragged down by their spouses' efforts...who has raised how much money...who looks good in Texas...Who looks good in Ohio...

While the shooter runs free in L A and who knows what happened in Louisiana...the Battalion of blondes that entertain us in the morning are driveling on about the rock star qualities of Obama and how does McCain hope to generate enough enthusiasm among the right to counter the Big O.

It occurred to me that there really isn't a news channel anymore. I went to the CNN headline channel and was treated to their morning celebrity news. MSNBC and CNN weren't any better, although I did stick with CNN for about three minutes while they updated the bus stop stuff. Even our local AM radio station that claims to be a full time news station...isn't. There is about two or three hours of local morning news and traffic then at eight comes Glen Beck...at ten we get Rush...at one comes Hannity...at four we get a local wannabe who can't find his butt with both hands. Of course we could tune in to the NPR station...but they aren't really any better. The evening news considers a five minute segment on drinking alcohol in the sixth grade an "in depth look".

There was one segment on Fox about a Marine Gunny named Spanky Gibson who is returning to Iraq after spending almost a year in rehab...his left leg was gone almost to the hip. He asked to go back ! The only war story that had any positive aspect to it at all.

I've read several comments on JU lately about how uninformed the general public is. Is it any wonder? Recent "man on the street" surveys have shown that a lot of people can't name the Vice President, find Iraq on a map, know who is running for president, or even name their own congressmen or senators. So maybe there is some merit to those comments.

The nightly Current Events entertainment section of our network programming NEEDS to be filtered. Someone needs to put real news back into the news broadcasts. And for Pete's sake...can't Fox find at least ONE non-blonde to read the teleprompter?