On The Media- Walk-on Story, Runaway Coverage

So none of my students who are sitting on late papers turned them in today, so I get a brief break. Check this transcript between Brooke Gladstone of On the Media and Jonathan Klein, president of CNN. When the president of CNN, who is calling for more hard-hitting in-depth news equates the Runaway Bride with democracy in Lebanon, we can easily understand the sorry state of our "informed" citizenry.