The media had quite the heyday yesterday over Super Tuesday and it didn’t take long for me to tire of the sameness on the TV channels. I’ll admit I don’t get to hold the remote often so the channel surfing was limited to Burl’s choices although I could have gone to the set in the bedroom had I really wanted to visit them all. After about 20 minutes I gave up and chose a good book over the droning of the reporters.
My main beef with them – after I get past their pompous attitudes – is the fact that they start their predictions of winners and losers before the polls are closed in every part of the country. I propose a moratorium on their reporting until the last polling place has closed and by then they could have some real news to report – not a bunch of predictions that are starting to veer more and more from the final results. I’d much rather peruse the morning paper or internet 12 hours after the fact and get information that’s closer to the final tally instead of some reporters’ guesstimates, no matter how close they think they are statistically.
It’s starting to look like the GOP has their candidate while the Dems are locked in a fierce battle. Perhaps we should give each of them a pistol and have a duel at high noon. Like I’ve said before, it’s going to be a long year and I’m not sure the American public will emerge as the true winner in this contest.
