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OK, I'll bite. I like Fox News, especially Special Report, but they have absolutely got to get out of the habit of 23-hour-a-day reporting on missing wives/suspected husbands and celebrity trials.

I hope this inflammatory statement doesn't earn me a spot in your Special Report to the Moderators.

"they have absolutely got to get out of the habit of 23-hour-a-day reporting on missing wives/suspected husbands and celebrity trials."

I completely agree, that's the only thing that turns me off. I can watch tabloid tv on any other station if I desire. I wish they'd stop those reports. Or, show them at 3 am.

OK, I'll bite. I like Fox News, especially Special Report, but they have absolutely got to get out of the habit of 23-hour-a-day reporting on missing wives/suspected husbands and celebrity trials.

I dislike the tabloid aspect in general -- that, and the steady diet of drug commercials.

I can't say if they're any better or worse than CNN in that department, since I've got my office TV pretty much permenently tuned to Fox News, and this is where I spend the bulk of my time. (The satellite box is in the other room, and I don't get around so well, so it stays where it is.)

I attribute much of this to Rupert Murdoch's tabloid background. Stuff like "Strippers First Night on the Job" segued right after some interview with high level diplomats -- only in the mind of an inveterate tabloid mogul could such a transition be dreamed up -- let alone repeatedly.

As to the steady diet of tabloid murders, yes, PLEASE give us all a break. Take Rita Cosby off the air, send her to a resperatory therapist -- at least until she learns to catch her breath -- and start covering some hardcore NEWS instead of.. hardcore hard-core.