Jul 26 2006
Why is MSNBC.com fixated on the worst there is to report?
I’ve been away for 10 days and hesitantly turning on the computer to read my backlog of e-mail and news. My newsreader grabs a number of feeds from MSNBC.com, one of them entitled “U.S. News” and I’m diligently skimming what I’ve missed. Some of the headlines:
- Sniper pleads not guilty
- Yates insane, not guilty
- Doctor’s wife charged with murder
- Body parts found in stripper’s home
- Boston warned tunnel won’t hold
- Congress moves to create sex offender database
- 1 dead, 10 hurt in shooting
- Volunteers patrol Phoenix amd killings
- Man guilty of trying to get wife, girlfriend killed
Should I go on? There wasn’t a single story with a happy ending. Not even one about D.C. upholding the gay-marriage ban. Is there nothing happening in all of the U.S. which doesn’t involve a murder?
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