The unbelievable thing was the top story at the top of the hour on the national ABC Radio news was that she had been taken to the hospital — not that she had passed away, mind you, but that she had been taken to the hospital.
The SECOND top story was the deaths of 140 people in a plane crash.
I just have to shake my head sometimes at the Drive-By Media. Until my teeth rattle.
Maybe they thought that the sudden death of a public servant in this country was more relevant to their listeners than a plane crash in a foreign country 9,000 miles away.