Odd, points out Burt Blumert, the amount of TV attention devoted to such stories as the runaway bride and the Aruba disappearance, yet when some undetermined number of girl Marines is blown up in Iraq, the cable news barely mentions it. It’s a reminder that part of the job of TV is to distract the booboisie from any story that might make the state look less than heroic. The reverse is the Internet’s job, of course.