If the United States government under its current administration discovered the secrets of time travel, what is the first thing they should do in the past and, taken separately from the effect this would have on the present, what is the first thing they should do in the future? What do you think they’d actually do?

Watching CNN Headline News the no information news this morning, it became evident yet again why so many people who truly want to know what’s going on must actively search for news through alternative sources.

The top two stories on CNN were the Alabama teen missing in Aruba and Michael Jackson’s mounting debt. While its horribly sad, I’m still not sure why the former story is more important than the hundreds of other missing persons in the word and its unclear why the latter story chose to focus on possible tax bills accompanying a Beatles catalog sale while ignoring the potential proceeds of more than $400 million.

During a full thirty minute span, there was no mention of the G8 agreement on debt relief for the poorest countries, nothing about the two marines killed in Iraq, not a single story covering the Justice Department report claiming FBI officials had at least five chances to discover two of the 9/11 airline hijackers, and zero coverage of Citigroup’s agreement to pay $2 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by Enron shareholders.

Though maybe a story about a couple that shared the names of two of Florida’s recent hurricanes and a guy dressed in a Spiderman suit are actually more important than anything else in the entire world. Who knows?