SmithAntics

Damn, Atrios beat me to this. But at least I know I’m not the only one that is absolutely livid about what has become of cable “news.”

CNN now plans to become the 24 hour local news channel, nationalizing every local interest story. Car chases, missing young white women, cats up trees, ...

... and, what must the families of the "4 soldiers killed in Iraq today" think of this being CNN's "top story of the day" and every day...

Iraq is a bloody fucking mess, the Pentagon absolved itself of responsibility for Abu Grhaib war crimes, and the Republican Majority is an undisguised corporate-Christian thug-ocracy. But in the alternate reality that is CNN et al., the story about the woman who got cold feet and bailed out on her wedding is front page.

CNN: The Most Trusted Name in News about Missing White Brides, Kidnapped White Children, and the Michael Jackson Trial.

A commenter an Atrios just nails it when he sums up CNN’s programming as “rife with bullshit, wide-eyed wonder at everyday occurrences, and Republican talking points.”

That is precisely what CNN is -- the other cable whores as well.