Ranting at CNN

I've ranted about this before, but I haven't blogged it, so there.

Which one of these "Breaking News" emails they sent me yesterday (I am signed up for them) is not like the others:

-- New Orleans mayor issues order authorizing the forced removal of people refusing to leave the city.

-- Louisiana Superdome, where thousands were stranded after Katrina, is likely to be torn down, state official tells CNN.

-- Actor Bob Denver, 70, of TV's "Gilligan's Island" fame has died, his agent tells The Associated Press.

Oh, yes, let me stop what I'm doing and weep. Gilligan is dead.

Seriously, they consider it a news alert all the time when some two-bit celebrity has died at a sufficiently old age, and it irks me. Rehnquist, Pope John Paul II...these are deaths worth alerting me of. Given everything that's going on, this should even make the news, let alone bother me with.

Also this morning, I don't know who the weatherman was, but he was talking about Tropical Storm Ophelia, and had to comment, "Hmm. Unusual name. Don't know about that." Way to whip out that classical training, there, sir.