The TV Gossip Vultures Have Descended on Hollywood, Florida

Their white and gleaming teeth all crowned and capped, the TV vultures from the gossip channels have descended upon Hollywood, Florida to pick at the bones of Anna Nicole Smith. In hot pursuit are MSNBC, Fox News Channel and CNN. Do we really need 24 hour, wall-to-wall live reports on this lady from Mexia, Texas? Do you really want to know about her childhood, her marriages, her found and lost loves? Does your breakfast and lunch taste better because you hear that ANS choked on her own vomit? Is it essential to the nation that TV anchors breathlessly tell you that they are anticipating another news conference in Florida? Probably not. But, for the next few days you'll be force-fed these tantalizing tidbits in torrid TV "news" casts.
Just how long can cable TV news keep reporting on "what we don't know yet is ... "?
Meanwhile, helicopters are being shot down from the skies over Iraq and our nation's best men and women are dying, gasoline prices are climbing, corporations are reporting obscene profits and the rest of the nation's important news has to take a backseat.
The reason that "everybody's talking" about the death of Anna Nicole Smith is not because it is newsworthy. It is because the producers and news reporters will report on nothing else. What a waste of airwaves and cable channels. We'll need a case of Zest deodorant soap to wash off the smell after watching these reports. Maybe Bill O'Reilly will be handing out loofahs and felafels to all the viewers.