Our Media Watch vote for the top useless story of the news cycle goes to the tragic demise of Travis the fun-loving-but-human-attacking chimp. It was prominent on the morning news shows, it will be replayed over and over again on the cable nets and expect it to show up no lower than the B-block on the evening news shows.
I'll save you the trouble of watching it on those outlets:
This article appears in Feb 11-17, 2009.