I’m worried sick.

It’s not a physical malady; more of a mental one. A deep-rooted anguish of sorts. And it all hinges around the forthcoming elections.

Once we elect new members to congress and a new President what the hell are we going do for news?

The elections will be over after nearly four years of intrigue and its a few months too early to start speculating on the next Presidential battle.

If McCain gets in he promises to solve the current credit crisis and being a person who takes politicians at their word, that’ll be one less worry. Wall Street and the sucking dry of the public coffers is getting tired. Nobody cares about the climate anymore.

The war in Iraq is winding down in preparation for the hand-over to Syria and Iran and really, who the heck knows where Afghanistan is? That’s 80% of the news right there. The remaining 19% revolves around vital celebrity news which is too complex an issue for me and 1% ‘real world’ which nobody in their right mind, aside from the BBC, cares about.

Please don’t tell the media that they’re going to have to report on such irrelevancies as other countries problems, the poor, the hungry – that’s so 1980’s and does zip for ratings. Have another Rice-Aid or somewhat – just keep me out of it.

Fact is most of us don’t care what happens in other parts of the world; we could care less if China or Europe were to slip beneath the oceans, it would hardly warrant a mention on Fox, except to wonder if our debt went down with them.

I’m not too good at writing about things like health care, unemployment, inflation, education. You know ‘stuff’ that people say is ‘reality.’ It’s so depressing; ugly, so 'real.' So not in the modern genre of media coverage, certainly among us, the media elite.

I wonder… if Palin doesn’t get elected if she’ll do a Playboy center-fold.

Now that’s news worth writing about.