Cable News on a Slow News Day

A 60 year old woman had a panic attack on an airliner from UK to DC. Plane diverted to Logan in Boston.

All three cable news networks are beating the story to death. It's been "Breaking News" for the last three hours. Constant televised pictures of people calmly getting off the plane. Constant announcements that it is not terror-related. Detailed "analysis" of how passengers might have reacted on the airplane.

Psychologists called upon to describe how a person feels during a panic attack as the networks try to spread panic attacks with fake news.

I wonder why the Daily Show is so popular? The cable networks fake news is almost as funny. It must be the time slot.