Has the Media Learned Nothing??

Two things about the media today that just annoyed the heck out of me:
1. 17% of the New Hampshire precincts are in and already the media is ready to almost call the primary and to write off a candidate. Have we learned nothing from the 2000 presidential election?? Aye, aye, aye, can we wait until say, oh I don't know 50% of precincts are in before making a judgement call? Also why is the national media writing off John Edwards, he didn't do badly in New Hampshire or Iowa and I still maintain that he is a viable candidate. As for my two cents about New Hampshire, God Bless you little blue state, but truly, you are not indicative of the larger nation and as you tend to consistently go blue and are surrounded by like-minded blue states, I don't think many take their cue from New Hampshire (see the fact that McCain won for the Republicans, bet you a nickel he doesn't do that well down here in the Bible-belt, illegal immigrate hating South - Republican country).

2. In the Northern Virginia area we woke up this morning to find out that Redskin coach Joe Gibbs is retiring. If you were not aware, the DC metro area is all about the Redskins (our NFL football team), I think it has something to do with the fact that the Redskins are the only local team that have won a championship (Wizards, nope, Capitals, nope, Nationals, nope). Our local Fox station preempted regular program for three hours to cover this "breaking news." Are you freaking kidding me?! Three hours because a football coach is retiring - what the heck is wrong with this picture?! Yeah fine, its Redskin country but THREE HOURS?! Come on, there are people dying in the world, our soldiers in Iraq don't even get this much television time. Priorities people, sad statement about Fox's priorities.