I just finished watching the local CBS news at 11. For the entire program, only 2 of the stories were actual political stories. They began with the swine flu, if that can be deemed a political issue, and than after that they brushed over Senator Arlen Specter’s changeover to the Democrats.
For the rest of the program, they discussed a potentially dangerous strain of ringworm that you can contract from Raccoon feces, some small local events, the weather, sports, and than they finished it off with the a report on the new Wolverine movie. This news program was definitely more entertainment than political, but that doesn’t make it not news. People want to know what is going on in sports or in the movies, and who doesn’t like to know what the weather will be like for the next week? Perhaps these stories aren’t important, but they reach an audience that definitely has the right to be interested in entertainment news.
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