My Opinion

There is absolutely no good reason for stories exhaustively examining trivial details related to possible developments in a ten-year-old murder in Colorado to lead on cable news, nor occupy front page space in a major newspaper.

We are still in two, count 'em, two, shooting wars supporting governments we installed in two troubled countries. A teetering cease-fire has just begun in the Mideast. A US District Court Judge has ruled that the President of the United States has been acting both illegally and unconstitutionally, and the President strongly disagrees. The Gulf Coast is still a shambles. And this morning, the President forcefully declared that we would be staying in Iraq as long as he is President, and acknowledged that Iraq had nothing to do with the attack on 9/11.

Any one of those stories, and many others, has more actual news value than whether or not the alleged suspect in the aforementioned murder case was not wearing handcuffs when he was flown back to the United States, why he and his three handlers from the DA's office were in business class on the 15-hour flight, or whether something written in a high-school yearbook might connect with something in the ransom note.

As far as I'm concerned, if and when they convict the guy, they can run a short headline story on one day, and some longer stories somewhere where you have to be looking to find them.