Casey Anthony Infatuation

I wonder if every news station in America is aware that their competitors are airing the Casey Anthony trial live as well. I heard Nancy Grace on one of the news networks (I cannot remember which one it was because in the past two weeks or so not one has been able to distinguish themselves from the other) voicing her anger saying that Ms. Anthony has the power now to make money off of this case by selling her story to documentary film makers or for a screenplay to shoot a movie. But have we not already been watching the Casey Anthony documentary? They have been filming her complete trial on all the major networks. We already know what went on inside the courthouse. But, to say that having 24-hour news networks is a good thing is absurd. They clearly cannot handle that much news syndication. We have been watching this trial not because a majority of Americans are interested or want to (speculation, I have not ready a poll that supports this but still pretty confidant in saying so), but because the media has to constantly seek sensationalist stories to cover their daily news. Unfortunately, these sensationalist stories usually have no relevance to most of our lives. What is important right now is the debt negotiations that are going on in Congress. I just heard from Ezra Klein's blog that Obama may be striving to cut 4 trillion dollars in the budget reduction negotiations. 4 trillion dollars is an incredible amount of money to cut and the media should be doing their job to figure out the authenticity of Obama's intentions, as well as the House leaderships'. But not this morning. Every single news network was showed the Anthony case live even though she had already been exonerated for the reason why this story ostensibly got constant coverage - for killing her 2-year old daughter - and they are only charging her for perjury this morning. This is why it is laughable when I hear Wolf Blitzer of CNN say that they don't like 'covering stories like this' and how much of a 'distraction' this is when speaking of Anthony Weiner's scandal. But what about Casey Anthony. How does Wolf Blitzer explain CNN's coverage of the Casey Anthony case? It is not that they "wish they didn't have to cover story's like this" because if they didn't, they wouldn't. Is there some media God that is forcing this network's to cover these irrelevant stories. No. Their problem is that they hire unfit news commentator's who don't have the proper journalism skills to run a credible news program. Anderson Cooper, Rachel Maddow, and maybe a few others, are the only commentators who, my opinion nonetheless, run serious journalistic shows. Anderson mentioned the Casey Anthony case for maybe five minutes in the middle of his show while all other news shows leaded with the Casey Anthony case and allotted about half their time to it. We need capable news commentators on our networks. Because lets face it. Sean Hannity and Lawrence O'Donnell are not properly informing their viewers about the underlying facts about the complicated issues that are facing us today. Dedicating a whole hour about how the other side is run by Satan is not helping America stay competitive in the 21st century.