I doubt that there's a single person on this planet who isn't critical of major news outlets' extensive coverage of minuscule events.  Everyone's had enough of that blond girl who died.  Heck, most people had enough of her before she died.  But the fact that it's CNN's top story every day has me puzzled:  If I and everyone I know hates hearing about this stuff and has only bad things to say about these news networks, why are they still devoting tons of airtime to it?  I'm assuming it's the same reason media organizations devote time and money to anything:  Ratings.  And that's what scares me.  Enough people are watching this stuff to validate covering it. #entertainment