What does it all mean?!? ;)

Let's imagine that there is a number of journalists, commentators and the like hired to cover stories. Their employers hired them for their skills, and those employers don't want them to just set on their butts, or plant themselves on a bar-stool some place. There's nothing much to cover so they are sent to an Iowa corn field, in the middle of winter. Now, journalists and commentators need to do what they are paid for, so what do you end up getting? Perhaps what it means that there is only three inches of snow in the field they are covering, several miles outside of Des Moines vs. the five inches being reported in a field outside of Dubuque? Or, commentary and reporting regarding the change in temperature, especially if it is a sudden unexpected change, or in the opposite direction predicted by the National Weather Bureau. In other words you get something manufactured out of very little, or nothing, really.

My point is, it is much the same as the reporting and commentaries about last night's Iowa caucus's. It  may be quite fun reading the spin going both ways on the same results, but what a waste of time. A lot of people are being paid to say something that will catch your eye, and hopefully keep you engaged long enough to read the story, but much of what they have to say it based on little or no substance at all.