Another Day of Our Media Making Us Stupid

Just to avoid doing something constructive, I clicked on CNN, and what do I see? "Breaking News: Fort Hood Suspect Charged With Murder." See, the thing is, if you shoot a bunch of people and 13 of them die and you're apprehended and identified and so forth, it's highly likely that you'll be charged with murder at some point. This is a dog-bites-man thing, really.

Another headline: "Britney Spears' Twitter account hacked." This allowed the hacker to send prank tweets to the eleventy-kajillion people undoubtedly following Britney for reasons you'd have to ask them about. The article itself said that such things occur frequently, and it's happened to Ms. Spears before. In other words, there's no real info here and not much tainment either.

And Carrie Prejean got mad about something Larry King was asking her and took her microphone off. That's a CNN story too. Is absolutely anything involving mass murderers or blonde people news today, for some reason? I'm very confused.