Opinion: Don't Question the Almighty

While Sorkin blogged for most of the afternoon Saturday, he mostly delivered a sense of being star struck. In his wrap up blog post, Sorkin's second sentence was how much fun it was being so close to His Greatness. Sorkin did spit out the occasional headline and quote from On High, and if anything, he impressed Staci Kramer, who covered the event for paidContent.org. Kramer noted Sorkin's presence on stage as part of her own coverage.

The New York Times and paidContent.org were by no means the only media outlets that believed being in close proximity to His Fabulousness was a newsworthy event. Counted among the "I Was a There, Too" disciples were the headliners at CNBC. The business network ran an entire package of The Great Warren, paying particular attention to every diatribe he uttered -- including this tidbit on the newspaper industry. But why stop there, especially on a Saturday, when the markets are closed and we're in the business of covering financial news?

The brass at CNBC are apparently of the opinion that The Great Warren is so important that not only was the annual meeting worth covering, but traveling there was paramount as well. Call it a trip to Mecca travelogue, and unfortunately, the network brass decided to waste Michelle Caruso-Cabrera on this laborious task. "An Omaha Journal," such as it was, included such dribble as Caruso-Cabrera's family shopping at a jewelry store and Caruso-Cabrera leaving the arena -- her mom was inpatient -- to buy a dripless-pourer and a mix-n-stir from The Pampered Chef, a Buffett company.