The Nightly "News?"

Last night on the 10PM newscast, the local station led with...get this...the weather.

Don't get me wrong, I could see if there was a tornado or severe weather, or even if there was the possibility of dangerous driving conditions. Anything like that I'm pretty okay with...even if on several occasions the 6 o'clock news warned us to go get bread and milk only to backtrack at 10PM saying the snow was going to stay north of us.

Anyway, the reason the weather was the lead story was because it was actually 25 degrees. With the wind...

Later in the same newscast we were treated to breakdancers in the Vatican. Good to see the Pope getting hip...he's only 20 years behind that trend.

We also got some polls from New Hampshire about who was going to win the primary today, but not even sound bites from candidates. We got some local crimes going on downtown (which was probably the closest thing to real news). Then more weather. Then sports. Then horribly forced attempts at witty banter.

I'm not sure what's going on with local news...maybe they've punted because of the news-on-demand we're already getting from cable, but whoever is making decisions on what stories make the broadcast has really been surprising.

My question: Is the editor giving is what we want or telling us what we should want? Either way, it seems silly to me.