I was sitting watching Sportscenter this week and was using that "recall" button to watch CNN. Sportcenter was going back and forth between baseball division races and picking college games to be. CNN was talking about journalists who had been kidnapped in the Middle East and the concept of Civil War in Baghdad.

Spending no more than a minute at either channel was unsettling. I couldn't enjoy the comical banter of the sportcenter telecast thinking about the unrest in the Middle East. Nor could I bear to watch a lengthy portion of the CNN show, mainly because I had to see who would be ranked #8 in Sportscenters picks for the end of the college football season.

This week I happened upon a documentary about the melding of entertainment and reality, of how all things, especially through the medium of television, have merged and there is now no, or little difference. It is hard to admit that the knowledge of things going on in the world does not push out of my mind a concern for the ultimately important #8 ranking in a preseason poll. Entertainment and reality have merged, at least as far as ones' adeptness with the remote is adequate.