# I think it's time for the news to talk about something else

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 17, 2015, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-for-the-news-to-talk-about-something-else/737785 "2015-11-17T05:23:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-for-the-news-to-talk-about-something-else/737785/21 "2015-11-17T22:04:52Z")

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I just turned on our local news. The lead story is that it’s raining pretty hard (but not as hard as some other places) and that it will continue to rain for several hours.

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-for-the-news-to-talk-about-something-else/737785/22 "2015-11-19T17:36:24Z")

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One person who’s probably not sorry about the current news media emphasis on Paris/ISIS is Melissa Click.

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**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-for-the-news-to-talk-about-something-else/737785/23 "2015-11-19T21:20:10Z")

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I assume that you are watching CNN. They have 2 hours of filler for every 5 minutes of actual facts.

Dave Barry wrote in his [2014 Year In Review](http://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article4940373.html):

> [@Dave Barry](#):
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> A huge airliner simply vanished, and to this day nobody has any idea what happened to it, despite literally thousands of hours of intensive speculation on CNN.

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