A few days ago, griping about the media obsession with “runaway bride” Jennifer Wilbanks, I wrote:

Have we forgotten how to say, “It’s none of my business?”

Since then, I’ve realized that we say it a lot. I can’t count how many times I’ve heard, “I know it’s none of my business, but…” Which, of course, is exactly the opposite of minding our own business.

This blog doesn’t get much traffic, usually. But in the last 24 hours, there have been about fifteen times as many visitors as on an average day. Almost every one of them found the site by Googling for “Jennifer Wilbanks.”

So tomorrow I’ll be posting my stunning exposé on Britney Spears’ pregnancy. It’s all the news you need to know!

That should run up the hit counts a little.

Janeane Garofalo on the PBS program NOW:

The right wing noise machine over the last forty years has spent an enormous amount of money and time convincing the people that the truth is a liberal bias.

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The mainstream media has now given fact and spin equal weight in a “he said, she said.”