Meanwhile in the world of world-shaking political developments
[rebelmouse-image 24750114 original_size="600x418" expand=1]What's funny to me is that one of the major problems with crime stories like Casey Anthony's that take over the news is that they get covered even if there's really no new news, and there's so much coverage that, if you know nothing about the case, it's really hard to figure out much about it from any random news item about it. (Seriously, from the first five items I grabbed about Anthony, I could be forgiven for assuming she was being tried in a capital case for aggravated promiscuity.) That said, huge political stories of legitimate and inarguable importance fall into the same trap. Debt ceiling stories are being churned out at a rapid pace, and most of them don't add much to the whole story except to keep it on the radar because it's a very important story. I don't actually object to this---there's a value in continuing to say something over and over until people hear it---but it does create almost comically burned out coverage of the issue.