Mountain from Molehill

As the congregation is aware, many of my sermons have to do with things that make me mad. This is one of those.
I have just missed “Judge Judy” at 4 PM on Channel 26 (Fox). Granted, this is not world class TV, but Fox has decided that non-stop coverage of a lone gunman in one of NASA’s buildings is of far more interest to the viewing public. Evidently this coverage has been going on since 2 o’clock. So far, I have heard a hundred times that; 2 shots were fired, no one is injured, no contact has been made. Repeated stories of the school that is three blocks away that went under “lockdown.” Sadly, one of the Fox executives has a sixth grader at the school and we endure inane and unintelligible communications with the child via telephone.
At last count, there are a dozen regular cop cars, assorted SWAT vehicles, armored cars, fire trucks and ambulances on site.
Later in the evening the results are in - a murder/suicide. How many murders are there in Houston every day? How many suicides each week? Official overkill is one thing, but TV coverage that exceeds three hours for something this common is mind boggling.
I expect a few of you “news-hungry” folks may disagree but I would much rather be hearing Judge Judy giving the verbal backhand “idiot!” to one of her customers and read about the murder/suicide in the morning. Is the suspense really worth looking at NASA building 44 for over three hours? Nothing changed. What was done was done.
Pax vobiscum