Lazy news media

When you heard the news that John Mark Karr was arrested in connection with the JonBenet Ramsey murder case, did anyone else think that this whackadoo might have zero to do with it?

Karr clearly obsessed over her from afar and has prior child porn convictions charges, but that doesn't immediately translate into having been involved in the girl's death.

Maybe he just really wanted to get out of that Thai jail. Things aren't really adding up, just based on what's coming out. (AP):

Karr told The Associated Press he was with JonBenet when she died.

"I am so very sorry for what happened to JonBenet," he told the AP in Bangkok. "Her death was an accident." Asked if he was innocent, Karr said: "No."

A senior Thai police officer said Karr also told investigators he drugged and had sex with the 6-year-old beauty queen before accidentally killing her.

An autopsy done a day after her body was found on Dec. 26, 1996, said a blood screening showed no drugs or alcohol in her body but said she had vaginal abrasions.

All I know is that the talking heads were having a field day, as the news channels couldn't find anything else to cover. I couldn't find any real news.

The wall-to-wall coverage of the JonBenet case is not surprising though; the MSM has been aching for another sorry tabloid tale like this to rise from the dead. News about say, the meltdown of the Middle East or a ruling on the government's warrantless wiretapping program today, may just be tiresome for news directors. Even Wolfie was talking about JonBenet last night while reporting from the Middle East.

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What constitutes "BREAKING NEWS" is quickly becoming meaningless. Kate was home sick yesterday and she had on one of the 24-hour news channels and said the network must have thought there was abso-flipping-lutely nothing out there to update people on. The network interrupted its regular afternoon coverage with "BREAKING NEWS" that in Huntsville, Alabama officials were demolishing an old bridge "LIVE".

She said that after the C.C. Clay Bridge, which has been replaced with a new one, hence the demo, the talking heads were asking breathless questions about what was going to happen to the sinking metal structure.

News I need to know. Kate was so incensed that she almost called me up to tell me about it.

Next thing you know the "BREAKING NEWS" will be about Dear Leader taking a crap.