Jon Friedman has been watching too much morning TV. "The morning shows have become a joke," he declares today. "It's almost as if the task of airing footage of the heartbreak in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi has by now become an annoying diversion to what seems like the shows' real mission."

That real mission, of course, is to "parade one perky, blow-dried, disposable TV star after another to promote the networks' primetime offerings." More...