The Misinformed: More Than Just Your Regular TV News Viewer?

[Commentary] We all want an easy story line -- whether it comes from real-life news or from our fictional scripted TV shows. Trouble is, there are massive grey areas.

Some stories are easy to tell; others are complicated. There is no formula for the real stuff. But TV producers will try -- thus modern-day cable news networks and their strong opinion format. Some TV takes the drama away from everything. Who wants to be that objective? We then get bored, gaze into space, switch the channel, or cross them off our Golden Globe list. Put anything on the screen, and you can feel a pull to make our own mind up. And then some producers will do a lot off pushing. The misinformed? We all think we are smarter than the next guy. The really smart people know they don't have all the answers -- in real or in fictional life.