Coverage of Spitzer

The coverage of Spitzer's sex scandal has been all encompassing; most every angle has been covered. From the feelings of everyone remotely involved, the stoicism of Spitzer's wife, and the dreams of "Kristen", his call girl, to spoofs, and hard news of the scandal, no stone has not been overturned.

        Not only was it covered, but to some degree it was over covered. Entire news programs have been devoted to this. The tuned in world now knows the aspirations of "Kristen, " also known as Ashley Dupre. Apparently, thanks to myspace, she left a broken home for New York in pursuit of a music career. CNN actually had a link to view her page, and the number of visits for today, for instance, was 5,953,892, quite impressive. And while Spitzer is dealing with the consequences of his activities, the media is having a hay day making Spitzer wish he had never had wandering interests, or at least not made the call to his bank which raised a red flag and led to the discovery.

Overall the coverage of this story was......thorough, to say the least. But it seems that the media merely abided by the principle that sex and scandal sex newspapers. It seems that the papers have been so saturated by news of the war in Iraq, that any sort of distraction was welcomed whole heartedly. Now the time has come, however, to move on. Had this been a governor in Idaho or Nebraska, the press would most definitely not have given its undivided attention, and we most definitely would not be hearing about it every time we opened a paper or turned on the tv.