watching cnn or msnbc in the daytime is disturbing. a few moments on libya, then exhaustive coverage of charlie sheen. a number of times every day, cnn puts up a psychiatrist to diagnose charlie sheen, as the network sifts in detail through his every utterance. now i feel that the 'lifestyle' and celebrity-culture emphasis of these networks in the daytime reflects the fact that they think their audience is mostly female. that is something they would know. but either they horrendously misconstrue what women are interested in or the whole thing is a devastating indictment of the gender for extreme superficiality.