But you see, almost none of this is news. It’s all :
The Situation in Iraq continues.
The Situation in Iran continues.
The Situation in Syria continues.
The Pollution in China continues.
Starvation in Africa is now entering it’s 10th millennium.
The main reason is what Bump sez or alludes to: newspapers and journalism are mostly dead, killed by freebie blogs, the internet and 24 hour TV “news”.
If anything, it sounds more like it required her to record herself ahead of time, because the organizers are experienced enough to know that shit happens.
I know somebody who went to one of the inaugural balls and they said that the lady’s room not only ran out of soap but that in the men’s room the automatic flusher on one of the urinals wasn’t working.
I agree, if I randomly turn on a news program, there’s a good chance they’ll be talking about:
Lance Armstrong
Beyonce
Hillary’s glasses
Michelle’s dress
Or that football player who actually believed that he had a girlfriend that someone else made up.