today is the greatest

Today, it was easy to rise from bed, to drive to work. Today, small talk with coworkers is easy, not irritating. Today, the television spewing their vile interpretation of news fail to annoy.

Today I'm coming home.

a stark contrast

In my job as the Media Analysis expert in West Virginia, I sit in a cube with six televisions. On one TV, CSPAN-2 the U.S. Senate has voted to gut the 4th Amendment to the Constitution in the form of its FISA bill. On two others, CNN and MSNBC are "breaking" "news" about the Jon Benet Ramsey case. The last "breaking" "news" we saw on this case was the false confession of a crazy man, "news" that dominated national headlines for a week until sheepishly it ceased, perhaps out of shame.

Good work "news" organizations, good work.