Towers, Underwear Bombs, and Party Crashers- Oh MY!

I'm going to let you all (yes, all two of you) know that I work out at least 4 times a week. My gym, like almost every other, has multiple T.V.'s all tuned to local or national news stations. Like cows in a field watching a passing train, if you are stuck on a treadmill or eliptical for more than 5 minutes, you will eventually end up staring at the only object more interesting than the wall or the rolls of fat jiggleing on the guy in front of you; the T.V.s. It's not that I'm someone who thinks T.V. is a modern day evil, I just think that like chocolate and alcohol, it should be used in moderation before it causes a coma or insanity.

Sadly, exercising in a gym means being trapped for the duration of your exercise routine and thusly, exposed to the "idiot box" as well. I've come to find that watching the news is even less informing than watching infomercials or music videos. "Why?" you might ask, if there was a you, or if you cared to know; well, the new is cyclical, repeating the same nonsense over and over, and often, incorrectly. They are in such a hurry to get you the latest information that they seldom stop to check that the information they are reporting is accurate or even important. As proof, I offer you "Balloon Boy". I decided to actually "READ" the story and found a tidbit about how the family had been on the wife swap show and how the father had been in the news once before for one of his wacky inventions and almost immediately decided that it was all a bunch of crap and even went so far as telling a coworker that I thought so. No one in the media would say this because if the kid HAD been in there they would have looked like schmucks, besides, they were getting VIEWERS, so why not report is as a terrible emergency.
Now we have the "Underwear Bomber";

this tool gets on a plane with more than just his own shit in his drawers and days later we have experts coming on T.V. telling us how he did it, where he's from, what we should do to prevent stuff like this in the future... blah, blah, blah. If these clowns are experts, why hasn't the FAA, FBI, CIA or whomever hired them. Also, since it was an ongoing investigation, they were talking about what MIGHT have occurred! The official information hadn't been released yet.

"We have Bob McFuddledick, a former pyrotechnics expert for Whitesnake here with us today; Bob, based on what you know, review with us how this terrorist attempt might have occurred." "Thanks Sally. From what I've heard, he lit his pants on fire, what that means to me is he might have swallowed gasoline just before going into the airport and then once on the plane, urinated into his underwear, after having eaten C4 hours earlier, he then pooped that out and then tried to light it all on fire." "Very scary stuff, thanks Bob."
Yes, that's an exageration, but honestly, I saw one of the news shows get an "expert" on to tell us how the explosive the guy had worked and what it "could" have done, but they then stated that they didn't know how much of the explosive the guy even had! It's like saying "if he had one of the bombs from Spy vs. Spy he could..
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Morons!
Then I get updates on who's the latest idiot to sneak into the White House (they used to be upset that people donated to stay in the Lincoln Room-HA), and what nations are buidling crap that no one will use! Over and over again. Every hour on the hour.
I'll just watch infomercials from now on, at least they are only overstating exactly how amazing their $2 peice of crap is, not trying to tell me that I can fly with the "sham wow" as a cape... can I...?