This morning I turned on the television to watch the morning news program. The program was dominated by the Casey Anthony trial. Every trial motion, every inflection in the prosecutor's or defense attorney's voice, every shred of evidence was analyzed and discussed by a succession of talking heads. Meanwhile, the government has reached its legal debt limit, the G8 conference of world leaders is about to begin with several European nations on the verge of bankruptcy, Egypt's top leaders are on trial, the hostilities in Iraq and Afghanistan go on, the town of Joplin, Missouri is digging out from one of the deadliest and most powerful tornadoes in our nation's history, the victims of the Mississippi River flood are still homeless, our astronauts are in the midst of what may be the last manned space flight by the U.S.A. for many years, the President is on a tour of European capitals.
All these MORE IMPORTANT items of news are being usurped to show viewers the day by day, hour by hour proceedings of a trial against a young woman who either killed her own daughter or hid the fact of her death for almost a month or neither one of these. What makes this trial so important? Do the vast majority of Americans prefer to hide their heads in the sand and use their minds for dribble?
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