[blueerica]

As much as I do care, I think that the coverage has been a bit much. I'm waiting for new news, instead of hearing people give heart-felt speeches and promises of prayers, as though we've had a national disaster - 4 people dead and 20 missing is far from a national disaster. I understand it's a major disaster to anyone that's from there or would be traveling there or know anyone involved, but this over-coverage is desensitizing me to the point that I don't care I did last night. This morning, I'm annoyed - and worse, I feel guilty about it. But I have to remember, it's not the subject, but the way it's been presented that's getting to me.

I think this speaks toward the direction news has gone lately. The other day I was talking with my grandma about the poor transitioning that we see on news programs today (both 24 hour channels and local evening news). The talent just must not be there in the writing staff, because it's just plain cheese and it occassionally makes no sense. Same goes for the reporting. It's few and far between that anyone says anything with meaning - when someone is really good (my liking or disliking nonwithstanding, I think there are a handful), the public gloms onto it, until it too becomes just as cheesy and overblown as the rest.

Americans want quality over quantity, I believe - but it's our behavior that propagates (generally, not individually) the opposite.