News

Complaining about the media is akin to complaining about the weather. Remember 'if it bleeds, it leads', and the rules for deciding what to print:

Rule #1 is: sell more newspapers. 

Rule #2 is: if in doubt see Rule #1.

I am sure this is from a movie, but I could not find it. Both apply to television news as well as papers. Just substitute higher ratings and more advertising revenue. I was going to leave this as a comment over at Tam's, but it was slightly skew to the topic at hand.