Networks Lap Up Entwistle Story - Bury Real News

They've found another diversion. His name is Neil Entwistle.

CNN, Headline News, MSNBC, FOX News.

They're all reporting on the next sensational case that is the most important news since the beginning of time - a man accused of murdering his wife and their baby.

This will become this year's Peterson case that paralyzed "news" networks in 2003 and 2004, or at least it is a fair bet they pray it will.

However, hopefully the ability of the Blogosphere to frame what the real news is has a chance this year to marginalize the networks if they persist in reporting on sensationalized stories that affect one family, as opposed to the issues affecting our whole nation and the world. Issues like our nation's national debt and rising deficits, the ongoing problem of poverty, racism and bigotry in our country, a government intent on spying and lying, our growing energy problems, our health care system, or aging population, our alienated youth, rampant crime in the GOP led Congress, world wide health and poverty, continued unrest and instability in the Middle East, flaring Muslim passions about Western insensitivity, flaring Western passions against Muslim violence, Iranian development of a nuclear bomb, North Korean development of a nuclear threat, avian flu, mad cow, global warming, shrinking rain forests, extinction of species, and on, and on, and on.

We must do our part to keep these issues in the forefront and the Entwistle stories in the tabloids and off network news.