Useless reporting

Sometimes the media is just dumb. Not malevolent, or even incompetent, but merely dumb. I think of this because of the story that Buster Olney, who does fine work covering baseball it must be said, decided that it was worth reporting that the Phillies were having internal talks about trading Ryan Howard for Albert Pujols. I simply must ask: why is this news? Seriously, Olney did not report that the Cardinals were considering accepting the offer, heck on TV he went out of his way to say that they weren't. So what he actually reported was that the Philadelphia Phillies were talking INTERNALLY about trying to trade for Albert Pujols. Excuse me for saying this, but NO SHIT the Phillies were talking about trading for Pujols. He's the best in the game, and Howard does present a decent alternative. It isn't news that ANYONE needs to hear because there was absolutely no indication that the Cardinals wanted the deal. So really, what happened was there was a slow news day for baseball and Olney wanted to get his name on ESPN with something. Thus we got dumb reporting.