Where has the news gone?

So Justice Sandra Day O'Connor just retired. With the loss of its swing vote, and nothing but conservative nominees in sight, the balance of power in the Supreme Court is about to shift. We haven't had a new Justice appointed in almost ten years.

Learning this, I turned on CNN to hear all about it. Instead, I got an in depth report on Ben Affleck's wedding to Jennifer Garner. CNN Headline News, which still advertises that it is a 24-7 news source, now features at least one hour of Showbiz Tonight (featuring the latest from the Enquirer) followed by one hour of Nancy Grace (who, to her credit, at least talks about news). When it is showing Headline News, about 5-10 minutes of every hour is dedicated to celebrity news or some fluff piece.

If anyone knows of another network that will present facts in a timely, relatively unbiased manner, please let me know. It appears to me that we just lost the last one.

(Incidentally, Washington Post article can be found here, Jeff's response is here, and Ben's is here. Thanks for the head's up, guys.)

Song lyric of the day:
"You don't really need to find out what's going on
You don't really want to know just how far it's gone
Just leave well enough alone
Eat your dirty laundry"
- Don Henley, Dirty Laundry