Why should we care about Jodi Arias? We shouldn’t

And Headline News (HLN) got a bad rap from me on Friday.

Since the trial of Jodi Arias began on Jan. 2, HLN has been in full social justice mode.

Arias is accused of shooting and stabbing her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander to death in June of 2008.

It’s a brutal crime for certain, and Friday, HLN was devoting about 90 percent of its coverage to the trial.

If you haven’t seen HLN in a while, you can currently identify it as the channel that has the same semi-attractive brunette crying on it 24 hours a day.

However, elsewhere in the world on Friday, thousands of people were recovering from meteor impact in Russia.

This is also the same day a very large asteroid passed so close to the Earth that it came between the atmosphere and some of our outermost satellites.

This is why it shocked me that the death of one man would merit minute-to-minute trial coverage on a day when more important stories were literally falling from the sky.

This is why I get angry when I think about what HLN started out as.

It was CNN2 or CNN Headline News, but since 2005, HLN has made money by playing the role of the nation’s hairdresser.

The network’s main talking points are usually “he says, she says” at best.

Here’s what really makes me angry, it’s not really the network’s fault.

People watch this stuff and it’s a little shocking.

I have no idea why a good percentage of America cares more about the fate of one photogenic, accused killer than they do a giant asteroid, but I do know that they shouldn’t.

This isn’t to say murders don’t have their place in the news, and there are plenty of instances where it’s right to put such things as a top story.

When people want to know as much as possible about serial or mass killers, I get it.

Crimes that heinous seem so unearthly and so inhuman that learning about the person is almost part of the coping process, but this is one girl who killed one guy.

You could stroll into the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department and find better stories than this one.

What I really miss are the 90s.

Back then you had to be a celebrity to get on TV for a single murder.

Nowadays, if you can fit into a size two and seem like other women would hate you pretty easily, murder could be a good career choice for you.

I’m not sure Casey Anthony won’t be an HLN anchor herself before it’s all said and done.

The long of the short of it is, there’s actually news happening everyday, things that actually affect all of us.

I cordially invite you to watch with me.