Man, I’m so sick of CNN’s bullshit headlines.

JonBenet Ramsey is not national news. It’s just not. It’s absolutely, positively not news when there are two major wars in the world. Nothing PAris Hilton does is news, ever. EVER. A rural boy’s worm-selling stand – not news. It just nauseates me how much the US is caught up in the cult of celebrity and nonsensical “human interest” bullshit, to the point where a years old murder of a girl (a terrible tragedy, but ultimately unimportant on the world stage) overshadows a war, our current disastrous political climate, and all sorts of issues (global warming, corporate corruption, whatever) that actually *matter*.

Fuck you, Fox News. Yeah, your “news as entertainment” angle is, indeed more appealing to the American public. That’s our fault, but it doesn’t make me hate your company any less for exploiting it, and making it the defacto standard for success in the so-called “news” business.

God, I’d be *so* ashamed if I considered myself a journalist these days. How do you look someone in the eye and tell them that you’re a journalist, when journalism, as a whole, is so incredibly pathetic and meaningless? When what once was a noble institution with integrity has been so subverted, so upended, and you let it happen on your watch?

Ugh. It all just makes me nauseated.