It was a holiday at CNN yesterday as it was everywhere else in the country, so Lou "Gordo" Dobbs had the day off, and Kitty Pilgrim was subbing for him. She was talking to Howard Kurtz and some other veck whom I've never heard of, and asked them if they thought there was too much media coverage of Michael Jackson's untimely departure and the funeral and a nation's grief and all that.
As it happened, CNN had just run a poll asking this same question a few minutes earlier and the results were up on the screen, so of course these two knew what they were supposed to say.
"Kitty, the coverage is out of control, and it's becoming an embarrassment to the news business -- the almost wall-to-wall cable coverage, led by CNN, particularly at night, the network morning shows, the prime time network specials," moaned Howard.
Then this other veck says, "All of this coverage is very little news. I mean, there's really one piece of data so far -- Michael Jackson died at the age of 50. The rest of it, so far, is speculation, retrospectives, reactions of people. And this is an awful lot of coverage for a very, very little bit of information. But you know, people are talking about this survey, 65 percent of the country says there is too much coverage."
So, what do you think they were showing as background footage while these two [i]mensos[/i] are going on and on about how it's sooo terrible that there's waaaay too much coverage of this event? Take a wild guess. Yep. You're right.
It reminds me of the line in that Jim Carrey movie, "Mask:" Somebody stop me!
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