Top of the mornin' to you.

I rarely watch morning tv, but I happened to turn on Good Morning American today and late checked in at The Today Show and was surprised at how insipid and identical these shows have become. They report the news, but in the most superficial manner. The hospitalization of Nelson Mandela received no more attention and depth than the feature about a dog who can drive a car around a race track. To add to the dippiness, all these morning shows seem hell bent on having giddy hyped-up tourists from around the country gather noisily outside their studios carrying signs or just wearing moronic grins. Moronic grins are also sported by the overpaid hosts like Matt Lauer or  George Stephanopoulos and all kinds of lesser delivers of pseudo news.  This always surprises me because I am sure there are hundreds of talented charismatic talents all over America looking for jobs. So one wonders how ABC, CBS, and NBC happened to choose the personalities they have. For instance, today one of the young announcers on GMA did a report on a tragic shooting in New York City, and he kept referring to the "gitaway" car. Am I wrong to expect more?