Excitable Animals

I caught a few minutes of the Situation Room on CNN the other day, something I usually try to avoid. Is it just me or does Wolf Blitzer seem to be aroused by death, chaos, and mayhem? Granted, that stuff is the mother’s milk of the news product profession. But Wolf comes off as fixated to the point of fetish. And what’s with the ADHD wall of television feed? Does anybody, anywhere, ever feel more informed after a few minutes of that high-speed pass of talking heads? I’ve had this feeling since 9/11 that the news product profession has been trying to top itself. You can almost sense their professional depression that nothing on that scale has happened in over 5 years. Katrina was a widespread visual orgy of destruction. Problem is, they boned that one all the way through and keep quiet about it while hoping people forget how badly they handled it. I'm coining a new term to describe Wolf and is ilk: Professional Schadenfreudist.

Ares