Is this really news?

As I turn on the news once again and have to hear another Heath Ledger report done, not in the entertainment section but at the top of the news hour I start asking myself is this the type of field I’ll be working in? Don’t get me wrong it’s terrible that Heath Ledger died, I feel sorry for his family and especially his young daughter. But common how many of thousands of people die each day from drug overdoses and don’t get any mention of them whatsoever? I have no problem with this sort of stuff being on the entertainment section of the newscast, but personally I would rather hear about what’s going on in Afghanistan.

There are so much other real news going on in the world, do we really need to focus this much time on Ledger’s death? I mean some stations are devoting 10-15mins of their entire show on this one person’s tragedy. Let shows like Entertainment Tonight or The Insider deal with this subject. I don’t want to keep listening to this on stations like CNN.

The news it seems today is more focused on what’s going on in Hollywood than what’s the actual real news. I’m not going to lie I like to know what’s going on in entertainment, but I believe there is a time and place for this sort of thing. I mean do people really care that much about where Heath Ledger is having his funeral take place? I have a hard time believing that so many people would be that interested in that.

Even as I turn on the news this morning, a couple of days after his death, it is still one of the top stories. I got so bored listening to the same thing I just decided to turn off the T.V and start blogging. The question I keep asking myself is how much is too much?