Forgotten shirt for today.

For 2 1/2 hours today, my sister and I watched the local news helicopter hover over her school while an anchor reported from the scene on a murder-suicide that took place between the faculty parking lot and her school. She didn't have to go go to school, but alerted me that the street that had been closed off to the public was incredibly busy and that traffic would be a mess.

I only bring this up, because it was the story for 2 1/2 hours on the morning news, but by the time the four o'clock news rolled around, the same channel made it not their first, not their second but their third story, lumped into a section called, "Utah news" in which they spend about twenty seconds or two sentences speaking on the top three or so stories locally.

What stories preceeded it? Number two was a family of four hit while crossing the street. Number one, and spending almost three minutes on screen was a truck that spilled a bucket of tar on the freeway. It wasn't even a bad spill. Though when it comes to traffic, we somehow need eight million cameras along the freeway, when even the worst traffic jams are nothing compared to any major city during rush hour.

The news can be so fickle. One hour's top story is the next hour's briefly mentioned incident. I do somewhat understand why things are this way, but when out of their mind tornado chasers make the news every day and stories about snow in New York, heat in California and humidity in Texas can dominate national news, (not to mention the classic, "what in your home could kill you? Details at ten.") it makes me wonder why I even watch the news if it's so predictable.

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