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Ode to Sports Center

For most of my life I've been a bit of a news and current events junkie. I watched the morning news show, I watched the evening news, and I read the paper in-between. I've also been a bit of a freak for entertainment news. So in-between all of the hard news, I was watching Entertainment Tonight.

But something happened to the news with the advent of the internet. It's like the hard news people and the entertainment news people sort of meshed, and they created a show that became nothing but gossip or just plain depressing. I mean, there's Matt Lauer every morning talking to the latest celebrity politico's mistress. Really - what's newsworthy about that? And then there's Nancy Grace every night doing the same thing. And meanwhile, the hard news organizations are getting scooped by TMZ. Since when do TMZ and NBC (or CNN or any of them) go after the same story, let alone the same demographic?

My solution to all this? Forget the Today Show, it's Sports Center, baby! It's usually the first thing I turn on in the morning, and the last thing I check before going to sleep. I get the latest updates, read exactly the same way with each new hour and each new anchor. But for the most part, the only bad news is whether the Dodgers lost yesterday. And there's no sanctimonious politicians looking for their latest sound bite. And as far as I'm concerned, it's the only news show that comes close to being "fair and balanced".

So they can keep their bad news, their tough questions, and their hosts who never let a guest finish answering a question. I'm sticking with Sports Center!

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jamie said…
It seems whenever I happen across Nancy Grace, she's always covering "Tot Mom". I stick with The Daily Show and Colbert Report myself :)
August 4, 2009 at 6:45 AM
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