From a NY Times article on TV coverage of the Supreme Court decision, Peter Jennings reassured Jackie Judd as she tried to make heads or tails of the document: “Nobody should be embarrassed about working through a Supreme Court decision [before a national audience].” I was amazed to find, as I drove home listening to the radio, and then channel surfed for the few minutes I had, that in the interest of being as fast as they could with the news, all the live news outlets placed their reporters and legal experts on the air immediately, reading and trying to figure out what they were reading. It was a real mess. I suppose they were expecting to find a summary statement they could just pass along. Or, as usual, they were milking as much drama as they could out of the situation. It was reality television, the latest fad. And I bought into it, because it was a lot more gripping and relevant than that thing on the island.