Janie, I understand your point of view. I have a TV but I haven't turned it on since the debates before last year's Presidential election. I may not turn it on for another three years. However, there are TV monitors in the gym where I work out, including several in the women's locker room. Last night I saw CNN's coverage of Katrina, and it really was worth way more than 1000 words. I have heard about spectacular rescues by the military, but actually seeing this had tremendous impact. A man hanging from a rope or cable trailing from a Coast Guard helicopter plucked another man from a roof and the two of them were carried off way above the floodwaters. I think that if I had been the person being rescued I might have been too scared or too weak to hang on to the rescuer.