"Perhaps you remember Julia Roberts in the romantic comedy Runaway Bride? Well it just so turns out that down in Georgia, there was a REAL runaway bride! We've got the story, next!"
Here in atlanta, they had this big eyed runaway bitch as the LEAD story and took the first 10 minutes of the broadcast talking about her. then they were going to commercial and said "police need your help finding two escaped murderers and on rapist who escaped and could be in the Metro atlanta area. Details when we get back."
You mean to fucking tell me that Two Murderers escape with a RAPIST and they don't make the lead fucking story?
Goddamned news.
I was listening to NPR on Sunday afternoon and they had the president of CNN on for a chat about why American news sucks and why they won't shut up about the runaway bride. His response was basically "okay listen, all our other journalism is good, but we have to do this shit," which was kind of funny or sad I dunno. Also, he said Fox News wasn't CNN's competition, because CNN was in the news business and Fox was in the talk radio business. He ripped off Vince McMahon.