No, not the band. I’m talking about the people on TV paid to fill airtime with useless drivel about supposedly newsworthy information. Delivered by vapid people that make Ted Baxter from Mary Tyler Moore look like Walter Cronkite, these talking heads do nothing but fill airtime when there’s nothing really happening in the world.

So desperate to fill this airtime, these so called reporters ask the real reporters, you know, the ones out in the field doing something called, uh, reporting, some of the most inane questions I have ever heard uttered by a news person.

“So Tom, it sounds like that’s a real mess down there. Let me ask you… We’ve learned that the town’s water recently had problems with a bad odor and that might be the cause of this recent tornado. What have you heard?”

“Well Nancy, I have to agree, it’s a real mess down here, but as far as what I’ve heard, I’ve heard your a fucking nut case!”

I’m so sick of these talking heads grabbing at anything and trying to fill airtime connecting it to the story. And what’s with asking for opinions? I want the reporter to tell me the facts and leave their conjecture out of the picture.

Where are you Mr. Murrow? These new kids need your guidance from the Dark Side.

Skunky