While You Were Sleeping

I get up very early most mornings.  In fact, I usually just sleep about 4-5 hours a night.  Nothing wrong with me; I just don’t need much sleep.  Probably because I don’t do much during the day, but that’s another story.

I have a routine when I get up which includes turning on the early morning local news.  They always seem to be reporting something that happened over night and prefacing it by saying:  Here’s what happened while you were sleeping.  That really bothers me.  I mean, I would have stayed up if I knew that was going to happen.  I would have watched it live.  But, wait a minute.  I think it also happened while THEY were sleeping.  They get to the station at 3:30, probably got up at 2:30.  If the event happened at midnight, my guess is that they were asleep.  I have heard the news people say they go to bed at 8 or 9 p.m.  That means most sports games were still in play when they went to sleep, most break ins and smash and grabs happened while they were sleeping and also many auto accidents and drive by shootings.

So, why are they acting like it happened on my watch and I missed it?  I think they should be apologizing for not being on the job to cover the action.

I’ve never written in or called in to complain about this and I probably won’t.  It may seem a bit obsessive.  But, I do wish they would quit pointing the finger and admit they are at fault.