TV news goes bonkers over Casey Anthony verdict: "I am so angry!" "The devil is dancing tonight!"

Bill O'Reilly and Geraldo Rivera in a shouting match, and Nancy Grace on a lynch mob of lawyers eager to display to the top of venting their anger on the Casey Anthony hearing ruling on Monday night. The networks try to act like they are above all, while each of them featured prominently the verdict. Scott Pelley led off the CBS Evening News to say that the case "a sensation on cable TV has become," but it was just spinning, in order for Pelley's broadcast of the Anthony case for his own purposes to exploit. Later, the CBS legal fiction Reserved The good wife is a legal reality to present a "Special edition of Mystery 48 hours on Casey Anthony.

The hypocrisy is thick as a news outlet to show to another cover excessive guess. On The O'Reilly Factor, the host joked about how the Headline News Channel "the 24 / 7" on the matter, "they went wild with this," he said. And then he proceeded to make the most of his hours spent discussing the matter with the guest. "I am so angry about this decision!" He said loudly to guest Geraldo Rivera. "I cook," says Rivera, Bill's pain feels ... that is, until they segment into a shouting match when Rivera tried a few reasons why the jury in the conclusions it did to suggest.
Just when you thought it could not get worse, O'Reilly hauled Bernard Goldberg, who sneered at Rivera and asked if the last would be so "open minded" as a "militiaman" had "a Hispanic immigrant killed. " What? Gee, why did these ethnic as the spring in marshy Goldberg's mind when you talk about Geraldo Rivera?
Over on HLN Nancy Grace spread to Dr. Drew's show for an extra long session squawks. "The devil dance tonight!" Grace preached. One of her guests, Sue Moss, seems to be on the verge of exploding from her eyeballs when she shouted, "We have OJ'd!"
I'll be honest: I did not hear the Casey Anthony on TV followed, details of a murdered child is disturbing, and I try to avoid it. But I was certainly aware of the deterrent excessive media coverage of this matter, and so I watch a lot of that has aired since the ruling came down this afternoon.
Grace's show was definitely the creepiest forum, with its endless array of experts who are eager to tell us that Casey Anthony went to "go out drinking, dancing and sex" when she finally freed. But CBS just about as bad, using regular HLN, for example, sexually explicit accusations about Casey's parents to move. At ABC, Night Line dragged in Tru-TV's Ashleigh Banfield the story and even network airtime on Nancy Grace - how disappointing, Ted Link may not have gone that road.
It is time again to acknowledge that in its quest for ratings and advertising dollars, TV news a bad job of reporting the news of the award of a story in perspective. Is the amount of airtime this ruling actually attracted more important than, say, more extensive coverage of the debt ceiling crisis? No.