Here is what you all think and care about today...

http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2013/04/11

I get a kick out of CNN, especially CNN "Headline" News, when they announce how they are carrying the "Trial Everyone is Talking About".   The trial du-jur is Jodi Arias.
Interesting.  For the most part, no one I know (other than CNN) is talking about it.
In the rare case it has come up, usually the person I am with asks, "Who cares?".

But this theme is constantly repeated.  The news (at least in the US) latches onto a story, and carries on with it to nauseating extent.  The latest case in NYC news  (Fox5) was the Rutgers basketball coach who was a little too rough on the players.

You would think there is enough going on in this world that would keep the news outlets buzzing with new content all the time.  And there probably is.  But the issue is, it is filtered to a target audience that primarily incorporates people who would actually watch Honey Booboo and The Jersey Shore regularly.
(Watching the parodies of these on South Park was about the most I could tolerate of these shows.)

But back to my point.  The "news" media has become a stream of filtered content, designed to influence the thoughts of the watchers as to what is important in the world.  And I find, for the most part, much of it doesn't really matter much.  And the few minutes of the hour broadcast that has any relevance (apart from the traffic and weather) is usually presented with a particular political or emotional bias.