Media

I was watching The Rachel Maddow Show the other night and I was astounded. I pray there was no script for the show, because it seemed more like a stream of free consciousness as Maddow jumped from Doonesbury to some matriarch to a winning politician with no discernible point to tie it all together. I kept watching to see if the rambling would amount to some kind of unfolding thesis, but after about 30 minutes, I just gave up. If you are going to do editorial news, at least be coherent!

I love NPR, and I love so many television shows on cable; I value both radio and television as mediums. But there's a lot of junk out there too, and it's no fun to see the quality programming stampeded over by what I will call "crazyscript."