by Douglas DeBono, 2006

ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED AT StandingOrders.BlogSpot.Com, August 30, 2005

Last night I clicked away from the Rams/Lions massacre to check on the news. I shouldn't have been surprised, they were talking about Hurricane Katrina.

Greta was positively giddy as she rambled through a list of mayhem, death and destruction. They showed film footage of New Orleans under water and Greta told us that Mississippi was getting clobbered.

You could almost her the giggling in the background!

I guess it was a welcome break from reporting on missing persons. Alas, Greta hasn't had much to go on since Michael Jackson avoided the slammer, and how many ways can you repackage the Natalee Holloway tragedy?

About 107 at last count.

The rest of the cable vultures were pretty much on the same track.

This is the problem with journalism today--they wouldn't know how to report good news if it landed in their laps. The If-it-bleeds-it-leads crowd would have little to talk about if it weren't for natural disasters, high profile Hollywood trials and runaway brides.

Most of the time, the 24 hour cable news cycle is little more than clanging cymbals and banging gongs.

Yawn. Back to the Rams/Lions massacre. Hmmmm, the Lions better get a line in front of Joey Herrington...