Is a Missing Kid in North Carolina Really The Most Important Thing Going on in the World Today?

I feel for any parents whose children are missing. Believe me, I do.

But while CNN can look down its nose at Fox News for detailing high speed car chases in Miami and LA, I think they are no better, perhaps even morally worse, for fawning over all these missing child stories.

At least watching the chases (or Paris Hilton stories, for that matter) we admit that we're engaging in idle pleasures, but CNN and other outlets like to dress this up as a public service rather than the ratings-grab that it is. Shame on them.

I get why they do it, but it really does reduce any lagging respect I may have had for them.