Our media is in a serious state of disrepair. I awoke this morning, ground and brewed my Starbucks® coffee, and flipped the computer on to catch the news of the day. (Speaking of sad, I don't even get a newspaper anymore, because I read everything online. It' sort of like people who don't have land lines anymore, because they only use their mobile phone. Hurray for technology!) I subscribe to SBC's DSL service whose portal is Yahoo. I actually sort of like Yahoo, because everything I need is on my front page (just like with every other portal) including the headlines of the day. Sometimes the headlines are legit and sometimes they are insane entertainment news, but I get the idea that they are trying to keep things diverse and interesting which is appreciated. One of today's headlines at 10:30 CST is a story from Reuters reporting on how a CBS News producer was fired for "breaking into 'CSI: NY,' one of its top-rated shows, on Wednesday night" with the news of Yasser Arafat's death. Admittedly we all knew that Arafat was in a coma and was going to die which probably doesn't deserve interrupting the regular schedule. But this was only half of CBS' rational for the firing. According to the article the producer was given "explicit, advance instructions that breaking news of Arafat's death -- IF IT OCCURRED DURING PRIME TIME [empasis added]-- was to be reported with a news 'crawl' at the bottom of the screen." So yes, the producer deserves to be fired for not doing what that bosses said to do. But that's not the point I'm trying to make here. Are you seeing how fucked up our media is? News is only news if it occurs during the evening news' time slot or NOT DURING PRIMETIME FOR GOD'S SAKE! This is yet another hit on the integrity of CBS News in my opinion. I remember a few years back in the movie The Insider how CBS Entertainment division and CBS News butted heads over the whole whistle-blower in the tobacco industry story. That was all about big business snuffing out real news. Then a recently and "utterly convinced" Dan Rather reported on the fake Bush memos from the Texas National Guard. Now CBS News won't break a story unless it's not in primetime. It's a really sad state of affairs people. Obviously I've never trusted major news outlets and pretty much hate all of them. But rest assured I'll never watch "60 Minutes" or CBS News again. It's quite evident they no longer have journalistic or editorial integrity. What a shame. Seema, is it time for me to switch to ULTRA LIBERAL KPFT Pacifica radio, Houston? Nah, I'll go the other way and keep it on Fox News Channel where they keep it fair and balanced.