BREAKING NEWS!

For reasons passing all understanding, I turned on my television this morning to watch the cable news shows. I used to do this quite a lot (mind you – I didn’t rely on these shows as my primary source of news; after all, I am an educated, intelligent woman) – but in the past few months, I've broken my TV addiction (with the notable exception of watching baseball games on occasion).

The news show was broadcasting a LIVE courthouse scene - the media clustered outside with their mics and vans and cameras, oh my! The headline ticking across this scene in the lower part of the TV screen was:

LIVE! BREAKING NEWS: Brittany Spears about to arrive at courthouse.


I don’t know what station I was watching – MSNBC, or CNN, or FOX - (I know it wasn’t a PBS station, nor the BBC, both stations that would not sport such footage, nor spend one jot of time covering Brittany’s travails).

As God as my witness, I vow to renew my commitment – to just say NO TO TV NEWS.

I’d unplug the set completely, but it’s October, for cryin’ out loud – gotta watch the Series!