Some guy was substituting for Joe Paggs on the Joe Paggs show this a.m. at Houston’s KTRH-AM talk station. Where do you get substitutes for a talk show host for someone whom no one has heard of anyway? But this guy asked the question of those in talk show land: Was TV coverage of Tim Russert’s passing Friday overblown this weekend?
It occurred to me that if the substitute host was all bent out of shape about too much coverage then why was he giving the story even more media coverage? Not so sharp, some people.
Yes, there probably was too much coverage concerning the passing of this important media figure. But you have to fill up that 24-hour news hole somehow don’t you?