So, what else is new?

I can't understand why Americans are interested in wall-to-wall coverage of the royal birth. Then I decided that, for the most part, they're not. While there are certainly some royal watchers, most people couldn't care less. Basically it's just another ruse by the networks to fill time and do less work. They don't really  have to spend much time covering real news or exploring serious issues, not  if they can just sit around waiting for a royal baby to arrive and spend hours speculating on what his or her name will be; tell us how swell Kate looked; use obnoxious pseudo-English expressions like "across the pond" or "break out the bubbly; and misuse expressions like "Brits".  In recent years the news has become increasingly shallow, the nightly news is completely superficial, while the morning shows are moronic. Every day many things happen that affect our lives or the future of our country or the world. But the news only seems to be able to handle one incident at a time: a bombing, a birth, a murder, a trial. This week it was a birth.