Attorney General Michael Mukasey recently collapsed while giving a speech and was rushed to the hospital. In a news report on the subject the reporter included this paragraph:

As Mukasey began to collapse, two people grabbed him and laid him on the stage. On a tape of the speech, a voice be heard saying “Oh, no oh! Oh my God!”

I’ve just got to ask: What’s the point?

Human imagination tells me there were probably a lot of “Oh my God’s” that day. Why did this reporter feel the need to tell us about an anonymous “Oh my God” on a tape recording of the incident. Wasn’t there anything substantive on that tape? Anything relevant?

This is what news reporters do when they can’t think of anything substantive or relevant and they want to appear as if they are doing their job. They include information that doesn’t advance the story in any way. And then they call it news.