yea--right--i have been critical of tv news for a long time--first the networks and now the cable news shows--it use to be nice years ago to just get THE NEWS without all the BS and personal opinions and phoney rapport and "spontaneous" banal chit-chat--a friend of mine worked until recently as a camera man on nbc and cbs news shows in the city and told me that 99% of all we hear is scripted--these people are some actors and should get academy awards--every time an anchor at the desk presents a story from a reporter on location they give the basics and then the anchors always have a few "questions" about the story to which every single time without fail the reporter replys "your exactly right --or "that's right"--and goes on to answer the "question" in fine details for minutes at a time--if the reporter knows the answers to all these staged and scripted questions from the anchor why don't they give all these details as part of their report--they are supposed to be reporters right--they do this to just make everyone think that these anchor people are so knowledgeable and such genius' and not just a talking head behind a desk---they make me puke---i like to get the news straight without all the garbage so i usually listen to the radio 24/7 news stations and only watch the tv news when there are breaking important events---