Ordered According to Importance? I Think Not.

While watching the 6:30 news on ABC, it became blatantly clear that the stories were not ordered by their importance. I did not watch the entire newscast, but I watched enough until you could tell that the stories were out of oder of importance. For example, at one point they segwayed from a story about a man being stabbed in Bed-Stuy, to the weather, to the story about the collapse of the Cowboys training camp tent. Also, they had a doctor on the show to discuss the swine flu and the recent recall of all Hydroxycut fat burners. I assumed that the doctor would address the swine flu first, but in fact he talked about hydroxycut. As a matter of fact, he talked for a longer time about the fat burner than he did about the swine flu.

Even though I feel that the Hydroxycut recall was important and affected a lot of people, I think the swine flu should have been the main topic of the discussion. Of course in the news there was also a little bit of celebrity news (Chris Brown and Rihanna, how Robin Williams is recovering from heart problems), which I feel is unnecessary. That is what shows like TMZ are for. Also, it is obvious that the news is not based on the order of importance, but why should it be? As long as the stories are being reported does it matter which comes first or second or third?