Following up on some past discussion of PBS anchor Jim Lehrer, this makes me feel somewhat vindicated:

Don't watch my "NewsHour" to be entertained, says Lehrer

Austin American-Statesman | Daily Texan
"You want to be entertained? Go to the circus, please," says Jim Lehrer. "We did 30 minutes [on "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer"] comparing naturally grown tomatoes to unnaturally grown tomatoes. Don't ask me why we did it. We did 30 minutes on the Portuguese elections that not even the Portuguese cared about." || Related story.

The Statesman story goes on to quote Lehrer telling an audience, re: the future of journalism, "I believe we mostly have fear itself to fear, to coin a phrase." Actually, I think a larger fear than fear itself is the mindset of journalists like Lehrer, who once described his zombie-like editorial philosophy this way:

"I don't deal in terms like 'blatantly untrue," he averred. "That's for other people to decide.... I'm not in the judgment part of journalism. I'm in the reporting part of journalism."