One curious thing I noticed on Tuesday was that the shopping networks, along with several other non-news channels like HGTV and The Food Network shut down their broadcasting for at least 24 hours. I definitely understand how ludicrous it would be to watch someone hawking Marie Osmond dolls while giant skyscrapers are falling down. But at least for the tape-based channels like The Food Network, seems to me that people maybe could have used a little respite from the other channels from time to time. I know I could have.