The printed media along with radio and especially television have blown the eclipse waaaay out of proportion to what SHOULD be more important and relevant news. We have not one but two "wars" going on, domestic housing issues, the border with Mexico, crime, inflation, etc, etc, etc. The "idea" of a free press and media sounds good on paper but what we have here, now, in the U.S. and elsewhere, is media that drives what happens or will happen in the future. The media here in the U.S. is hardly better than that of some communist/socialist countries. I'm thinking Russia/China/Belarus/Iran/Israel, for example.