At 11:00 Eastern standard time, 18 September 2007, the major US MSM outlets are all breathlessly awaiting the appearance of Mr. Orenthal James Simpson’s appearance in a Las Vegas court. CNN, CNN’s Headline News, Fox, MSNBC, and ABC News are all fixated on OJ. To their credit, CNN International and for a moment, BBC World, are covering the REAL news of the moment, a car bomb in Beirut, which sounds like an assassination attempt against a Lebanese leader in the Christian area of Beirut.
For all the talking heads that attack our political, military and Intel leaders as not doing their job, I ask you: will there ever be a moment in which the ratings chase and celebrity mania will be put aside for the things that may have a real effect in the real world?
Please don’t answer, I know it already, you'll claim thats what the public wants. Thank heavens we have dozens of commentators, lawyers, celebrity observers that can be deployed immediately to the OJ, Paris, Brittany, Lindsay, Ana Nichole Smith or similar story with helicopters providing aerial cover. And some of these MSM talking heads and Moveon.org crowd have the temerity to criticize our military and diplomatic leaders? Go back to your OJ trial, we have the real watch.