I agree. The constant interruptions of 'Fox News Alerts', where they play the same alerts over and over for hours, and the constant rehashing of the tabloid story du jour is really getting hard to take.
When I found out about the soldiers being hit with stones in Iraq earlier, I turned on all 3 loser cable news channels to hear something. Nothing. It was Michael Jackson and other garbage. Disgusting.
I heard about it on Drudge. Like you, I looked on the tv for more info but there was nothing. I remember being really pissed while Bush was in Britain and trying to find coverage on tv. This was before the Jacko story came out and it was nothing but Laci and Scott or Scott and Laci. MSNBC is getting just as bad.