Local "news": Five minutes of channel surfing tonight revealed the sorry state of Twin Cities local news:

10:09 KSTP (ABC) runs a gripping story on the season finale of Desperate Housewives, a program created by its parent network.

10:13 WCCO (CBS) parses the nuances of what your coffee order indicates about your personality.

10:14 UPN 29 reports on an Indiana boy who got stuck in a novelty game (the kind with the crane and the stuffed animals).

These times of unrivaled peace and prosperity must've rendered news reporting obsolete.