More - Why American Suck

The people at Think Progress have tallied up the time spent on both stories by the major networks, and hereÂ’s what they discovered:

All three major TV networks led their evening news with stories on JonBenet RamseyÂ’s death and the comments made by arrested teacher John Mark Karr. The networks offered multiple segments and numerous expert analyses to provide in-depth coverage on the legal case. The NSA decision received only a passing mention from two of the newscasts, while ABC devoted a full segment to it.

Still, ABC devoted twice as much time to Ramsey as it did to the NSA story. More egregiously, CBS offered seven times as much airtime to Ramsey as it did to the NSA story, while NBC devoted 15 times more airtime.

Yep.. the cute whitey in trouble story is far more important to Americans than a federal judge constitutionally bitch slapping the President of the United States - and raising the specter of criminal prosecution.

Violating FISA law (which the judge held that chimpy has been doing) is a criminal offense.

I wrote more extensively on the topic before. The reason the networks obsess on it is because more Americans care about a 10 year old murder than the current state of politics in the U.S.

I suppose that's too much to ask from Americans.. pathetic..