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Published Wednesday, January 05, 2005 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

TSUNAMI RELIEF BANDWAGON FORMULA REVEALED: It appears as though with each passing day, each subsequent celebrity/politician/company/country that hops onto the tsunami relief bandwagon has to give even more just to get noticed, so the rest of the world thinks that you're not as selfish as you really are. So how much have you donated?

Even more pathetic is the reaction by your local TV news outlets. At first, they didn't know what to do, because the tsnuami footage really put a kink in that nightly local TV news ritual -- the segment known as "aren't you glad you don't live there/bad weather" minute. Not that it's stopped the local TV news. Because they're back at that, only now, those "look at all the snow in Nebraska or the Sierra Nevada" segments and anchor chitchat looks and sounds even shallower in the wake of the tsunami. Of course, the local TV news tries to put a good face on it by telling the viewers how much money they've raised for tsunami relief. Ugh.