The media age we live in kinda sucks

There may or may not be a message here.  Don't think about it too much.  Just remember that I'm the victim here!

If you haven't been hanging out with Bud the CHUD, you're probably familiar with the Tiger Woods bit.  At first, this story was distant and insignificant to me, like death.  But now, its everywhere, and it got me... ME!  (I know, I couldn't believe it either, right?)  And I hate that I let myself get sucked into it.

I think I got sucked in b/c this story started to take up valuable talk time on sports talk radio that would've normally been used discussing more important things, like the NFL.  Its not really a sports story, it just involves a popular sports figure.  But since I'm too lazy to often change to a non-sports channel, I indulged. 

And that's part of what I hate about the media age we live in. 

Toss aside the fact that the media sucked on this one until Tiger decided to cut a vein and give them a few drops to pacify their vampire whore mouths, its the fact that stories like this have become lead stories on the local news or front page material in the newspaper...and taken up valuable airspace on my all-important sports talk shows!

To a lesser extent, Terrell Owens/Pac Man Jones shenanigans has gotten far more media attention than it should've in recent years.  And every time, I can't help but wonder if there aren't more substantive things that should be covered?  Like the Iraq bit, bastard moles that dig up my backyard, or how great it'll be when the Saints lose?

I don't think there's an "answer" to solve my "problem" with this, but if a meteor the size of the moon lightly grazed our planet, it would be a start.