CBS News' priorities out of whack?

I'm astonished by what I saw last night... Watching the CBS Evening News, and the anchor (Bob Schieffer) was rattling off the first stories, the "headlines," - about Supreme Court nominee Alito and the news that our government had foreknowledge of the coming devastation from Katrina. After the Alito and Katrina stories, the anchor said, "We have some really big (his emphasis) news out of Hollywood today - the merger of Disney and Pixar."

This was in the "before the first break" segment. I used to work for a newspaper, and we called the part of the paper above the fold... well, "above the fold." That was the big stories, the "sexy" stories. This part of the news broadcast is the TV equivalent of "above the fold."

Below the fold, after the break, came a story about Al Qaeda, and after that a story of how four more American soldiers were killed yesterday in Iraq.

(I just went to Google to check my spelling, and started typing in "Al Qaeda", then stopped and changed my search term to "news" - never know when Google will be forced into giving up their records, and a search of that term might just put me in a 'red flag' category... gotta be careful these days!).

So, what I just learned is, Alito and government deception regarding Katrina are important, but the REALLY BIG news is the multibilliondollar merger of some Hollywood corporations. Four American soldiers killed overseas in a bogus war warrant "below the fold" coverage.

Then came some commercials about pharmaceuticals, then the news started again, and the feature story was about a guy who keeps a bunch of animals that are used in films, plays, etc. On one of the biggest news broadcasts in the world, the CBS Evening News, at least 40-50% of the air time was devoted to entertainment, and dead Americans placed 5th or 6th, after the truly important story - Mickey and Woody are now married. Long live the happy couple.