Ratings at any human cost

Politico columnist Roger Simon undoubtedly sighed heavily when he penned this unfortunate truth: "All tragedy is promoted on television as if it were entertainment: the trial of O.J. Simpson for a grisly murder, the car-crash death of Princess Diana, Chilean miners trapped below ground and yes, even the combination earthquake-tsunami-nuclear calamity in Japan. It is the nature of TV that everything is promoted the same way, no matter how ghastly the event." Read Simon's piece here.