Actually, I've decided this "let's cover the most sensational stories we can find" crap cable journalism to be the culprit. They need to pull in the advertisers somehow, and the major networks get all the election industry advertising, so what is a poor cable news director to do to sell time at the highest rates?

Answer: create a perpetual media circus with a cheap dime store crime novel mentalite. It really works! Look at all the people who fall for it!