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They (MSNBC) covered what the Obama girls were having for lunch. They covered it, and covered it, and covered it. And then they end with “For those of you asking at home, ‘Is what they’re having for lunch really news?’, consider what’s in your commissary for lunch”.

In fact it’s not news, and that it is being presented as such is disgraceful.

To the extent that we’re now judging journalism by the same standards that we apply to entertainment — in other words, give the public what it wants, not necessarily what it ought to hear, what it ought to see, what it needs, but what it wants — that may prove to be one of the greatest tragedies in the history of American journalism.

Ted Koppel, being interviewed for Frontline.