CNN does this great thing where occasionally a link on their front page points not to an individual story, but to a story on their “political ticker.” The problem is, the link will bear the title of a particular story on the ticker, but the link itself directs you not to that story, but to the top of the page for the ticker itself, so you often have to wade through several posts about things you could honestly give a damn about, to find the thing that piqued your interest.
(Note that I’ve been back at this for all of 24 hours, and I’m already pissing on how other people do it. I’m fun like that.)
I mention this because moments ago when I was trying to read a post about someone commenting on Dick Cheney in retrospect, what I actually got to read first was this miserable dreck.
First of all: that isn’t a story about politics. Hell, stories that were actually about Sarah Palin during the election were barely about politics. A story about what the former shotgun fiancé of Palin’s single-mother teenage daughter said to a tabloid reporter about why, in his expert political opinion, she resigned, isn’t news. It’s gossip, it’s crap, and it annoys the hell out of me when I have to scroll past this kind of garbage to get to actual news that is of interest to me, after clicking on a link that promised to take me directly to that news.
Oh, and Mr. Johnston? Telling the world that Sarah Palin has lost your vote after she’s resigned from the office for which she’d have to run again for you to vote for her isn’t exactly a demonstration of your genius.
