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This is 20/20!

Tonight, we take a very important look at the most important thing in the world that a premiere broadcast program that is funded millions of dollars, on ABC, and reaches millions of homes worldwide MUST focus on. Our feature tonight is vital to everything IN YOUR LIFE.

We are of course talking about how tall is Rihanna?

Seriously, ABC, what is going on here. We have President Obama weaseling Obamacare through the senate, and yeah, we somewhat need a better healthcare system. Politicians need to be exposed, they are still lining their coffers with our stolen tax money and kick backs from corporate execs!

What ever happened to Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters interviewing people who are vital to everyday life? I'd like to know what Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is planning with all those nuclear reactors?

How about talking to someone from down in Fort Hood as a main impromptu exclusive? We need entertainment, let's just play old clips of George Bush giving a speech and Cheney getting away with, oh who knows, toruture, shooting a lawyer with bird shot and a billion dollar oil scheme that left a nation even more impoverished. Aww, who wants to do that?

Let's see, where is Rihanna from? We can do that in 4 seconds on Google. Watch.

Oh look, Wikipedia beat everyone to the punch! Note the sarcastic tone!

Hi, I'm Rihanna. I am from Barbados and was born in 1988. Those facts are more important than anything you could have learned or had researced for a 30 minute segment tonight on 20/20! I also like ice cream! - Rihanna on 20/20

And okay, that took us 11 seconds. But the point still stands, there are things that shows like 20/20, Nighline, Dateline MSNBC and other "news" organizations just should not waste time "reporting".

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? That's from Juvenal, he was Roman. He pondered, "who guards the guardians, who watches the watchers?"

Or, who protects society from getting exploited by those we trust with power? Namely, our politicians and business leaders we let exploit our capitalist system.

The answer is supposed to be our free media. That's why it remains free. But when we start squandering time with questions about Chris Brown and Rihanna, when there's so much more we can focus on, that's just a sign of a culture that's falling apart.

Where is Rihanna from?

I'm sure 20/20 will dedicate another ten minute segment to tell us all about, and meanwhile, everyone else curls up on the couch and goes to sleep to the sound of vacuous chatter.

Then we wonder why we're in a recession, have so much violence and a world in turmoil. It's because everyone is ironically indulged in an empty culture and lifestyle full that really signifies nothing.