What is News?

Since Kevin's computer count is at 0, and mine is now 2, I'll try to pick up his slack.

As I commenced my daily news website scouring this afternoon, I realized CNN has quite poor perspective on what is important to the nationwide audience.

Here's a quick game:

Which of the following was CNN's lead article about 5pm EST today?

A. Coretta Scott King dies
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/31/obit.king/index.html

B. Alito confirmed to Supreme Court http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/31/alito/index.html

C. Bush prepares for State of the Union
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/31/bush.sotu/index.html

D. Ex-postal worker kills 5 in California
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/31/postal.shooting.ap/index.html

If you guessed D, you win. The one news item that really has nothing to do with 99% of us.

Thanks CNN.