Just Read The News...Please?

Call me old fashioned, or call me a stiff. I like hearing the news.
The trouble is, news stations seem to be more interested in telling me what they think about the news than just telling me the news straight out.
Just read me the news, it's what your paid to do. I'm intela... intellu... intelligament... edgumucated... smart enough to form my own opinion thank you.

Ok, now I'm going to pick on one specifically.
CNN...
What the hell happened? CNN is where the world goes to hear the news. Now the world and the rest of us have to put up with stories frought with opinions and comedy. It's news for christ sakes, not SNL. Your supposed to be journalists, reporters, or simple script readers. Save your lame routine for when you bomb on your local comedy store amatuer night.

I should say though that I usually watch CNN every morning from 5:30am to about 7am. And sometimes at lunch for the international news which is refreshingly devoid of opinionated crap.

Just read me the news, if I need to be told what my opinion is today I'll watch Fox News...

Switching channels...
A good example of what I'm talking about happened on one of my local news broadcasts at Thanksgiving. Terrible story. An older couple were trapped in their car as the vehicle was ablaze. A quick thinking good samaritan broke the window and helped pull them out. Terrible story.

Could the news readers possibly just leave this awful story alone? I mean, that's really the story isn't it? NO! by god they have to tell you "the rest of the story" (sorry Paul). Now we have to hear how the object the good samaritan used to break the window was a frozen turkey he had purchased at the store. Ok, that would be interesting if the car was NOT on fire and the poor couple weren't being burned. Say if Sparky the family dog had locked himself in the family truckster with the keys inside, car NOT on fire!
As they are finishing the telling the story, as a part of normal news room procedure, the lead anchor must finish with a light hearted joke... here's his:
"That's quite a story Carole, I wonder if the turkey was well done?"
Hey Mr. news reader... how about the poor couple? how did they fair?
Dumbass...