Every day the local news is flooded with stories of crime, death, and disaster. It can put us in a depressed funk but does little to educate/inform us as to what happened in a day.
Meanwhile we were discussing the after effects of Janet Jackson/MTV-Viacom's salvo in the culture war. Enough of an outcry got some network heads to reconsider other questionable deeds and to take precautions (since they are the ones in charge) against celebrities hijacking a live broadcast for their own publicity stunts.