Thanks for Nothing, Hank

I'm sitting at home and the phone rings. When I answer it, I'm greeted by Hank Plante of Channel 5 Eyewitness News on KPIX-San Francisco. Well, it's just a recording of Hank, anyway, and I'm thinking about hanging up now, but then he says they're conducting a survey, so I thought, "Okay, I wonder what he's going to ask?"

I stay on the line, and then he tells me that, "Madonna and Britney Spears shared an open-mouth kiss on stage at the MTV Music Awards. Is this something that they should show on TV?" What?! Why are they wasting time conducting a survey about such a non-issue? If I hadn't answered the phone, I never would've heard about, I could care less who kisses whom on stage at the MTV BS Awards, and I hardly ever watch MTV (which is so lame that they had to create MTV2 just to have a station that actually plays music videos), and I had to visualize that Hank, visualize it! You call this news reporting?! No wonder Channel 2 gets the awards for best news broadcast in the Bay Area.

If you read Plante's biography on the KPIX web site, you'll see at the top, under his name, it says "Political Reporter". Last time I checked, Britney and Madonna didn't file to run for the California governorship.