One thing that needs fixing

At each Presidential inauguration, we are--or should be--reminded that a peaceful transfer of political power is a rarity amongst living things. That used to be the focus of inauguration coverage.

Not now. Did Sasha yawn? Did Schumer upstage the President? Did Michelle roll her eyes at Boehner? Did anyone muff their lines during the swearing in? Did this? Did that?  Did some other damned piece of transient nonsense happen?

Jaazus H. Christ! This is journalism? This is tripe. One hears a lot today about the people getting the representation they deserve, because they're the ones who voted the Congressional ship of fools into office. Maybe so, but the people's decisions can be no better than  the information they receive from a free media.

If inauguration coverage is any measure, most of the people get no information at all, only cheap entertainment tarted up as journalism. I don't know why the average broadcast journalist doesn't learn to juggle or do stupid dog tricks: that would add breadth and dimension to what they have the gall to call news coverage.