Blurring stories.

News should be based on facts. Facts should have sharp definition. It should be real easy to tell what is fact and what isn't. I think the 24 hour news monster has changed that. A fact comes out, and sometimes it doesn't really matter what the fact is, because by the time it's out in the public it's been spun this way and that way. It's become a fog with no definition and no substance. Something that just blows this way and that.

This Foley thing. He doesn't look like he quite did anything illegal, just dirty and morally reprehensible. But is that the story? The right has launched stories about how the 16 year old "beasts" lured our Congressman into tempation. There's a wimpy cover up story. It's all politics and nothing about protecting kids from this sort of thing.

I'd sort of like to go to the days when the story was actually the story.