Like so many, I’ve been following the Elliott Spitzer mess since the news broke Monday. I’ve restricted most of my commentary to Twitter as I don’t really have anything new to add. Others have already done a terrific job commenting and analyzing the disaster. Among others, check out Huffington Post for great columns by Nora Ephron and Chris Kelly.
But this morning, I read what has to be my favorite commentary on the whole debacle, including the inordinate amount of attention the news media paid to this story. Sure Monday was a slow news day but by Wednesday there were other events in the world.
It’s short so I’ll give you the whole thing. From Famous Mark Verheidens of Filmland:
The Helicopter Shot…
I’m watching MSNBC as I write this, and they’re
twenty minutes into live helicopter coverage of NY Governor Eliot Spitzer’s SUV
driving across Manhattan so he can theoretically resign. Forget all the other
issues involved… my question is, do these news folks really think there’s a
chance Spitzer’s gonna run? (posted March 12th)
That certainly does put things into perspective, doesn’t it? 🙂
You know, as I was listening to coverage of this story on Weds, it crossed my mind…why is this news on a local radio station on a small island in the middle of the Irish Sea. Who here could possibly care? Slow news day, indeed.