SlowpokeBlog

David Sirota has a good post about New Year's Eve coverage in the Mountain time zone, in which I'm also currently stationed. Not only is there no live coverage of the countdown, but the only option for probably millions across the West is to watch a rerun of the ball dropping in Times Square on CNN... and they don't even bother to remove the "LIVE" declaration at the top of the screen.

Oddly, Sirota got an interview with Angela Jolie on CNN instead of the ball-drop rerun, which makes me wonder if his CNN was being beamed in from the Central time zone. But the point is the same. Such coverage only reinforces resentment of the East Coast, and lends credence to the meme of "East Coast elites."

I actually wrote about this last year, but it deserves another mention.