Where news people choose to dig deeper shows a lot about the news person, the news organization and the effect of ratings and the entertainment factor in the news reporting.

What passes for news is really news-ertainment.  Or, shmews (like schmooze, only with an air something important).  I love the “digging deeper” segments.  Stuff you never needed to know about people you don’t know and now you have that knowledge crowding your brain and visuals that could blind a person.

The shnews legitimizes Jerry Springer’s exploitation of the stupid and the ultra stupid.

And between CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, people are digging some serious shit holes but not reporting news.  (Mind you, my political leanings are toward MSNBC, but I realize that most of it is editorializing, just as Fox does.  CNN, just asks everyone to be an iReporter and tell them what we think is important on twitter.)