It never ceases to astound me what the network channels think is newsworthy.

You can tell when there is no war going on with a political agenda (the majority of wars barely rate a mention). We get all sorts of tripe broadcast to fill the gap. News that shouldn’t even be news in the country of origin is somehow considered worthy of international attention.

That is bad enough. But what of these mass murders? Should we devote so much attention to them? It seems to me it is just glamorizing a sad event. Do we really need to ask friends and family how they felt about their tragic loss? Are we expecting them to come out and say “about time, they had it coming”?

Never mind that we drag up all the mass killings of the past and compare body counts. This one was more horrific than that one. This guy is more famous than that. If that is not encouraging people to go out and claim the most notches in their belt then I don’t know what is.

Perhaps we should stick with how drunk Fergie was, and how much she tried to elicit for access to her husband.