Bloodbath takes center stage on cable news

Why is this Atlanta shooting all over the cable news
networks? Besides the fact that CNN is based in
Atlanta (been there, took the tour, saw the gift
shop), this really isn't national news, is it? Any
time a story contains a good many quotes from one of
the hostages grandparents (who called her a hero and
said she "hit a home run for Christ"), it's a local
story.

This Brian Nichols guy shoots a judge, a reporter, a
stenographer, a deputy and a federal agent who was
off-duty and working on his house. It's sad and wrong,
but it doesn't have anything to do with the rest of
the country. Nichols was just a con; he wasn't a
terrorist. He didn't hold the area in abject terror.

The whole thing lasted about 24 hours and overshadowed
the murder of eight people in a Wisconsin church, the
Bankruptcy Bill, the Shiite/Kurd coalition formed in
Iraq and Lord knows how many other important stories.
These bastards complain all the time that they have a
24 news cycle to fill. Fine, that would explain
covering this story in this manner if nothing else was
going on in the world, but not covering this story
thusly when there are important issues that need
covered.

It's just pure salaciousness, a foul attempt to keep
people tuned in with tabloid-style luridness.

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