A good dig?

As you might have guessed, it has been a busy few days for me. Tomorrow they are expecting 6-10 inches of snow.

Anyway, NPR today had their normal candidate watching report what with tomorrow being an election day and all. I got disgusted enough at it to shut it off and here's why: They started with the Hillary report and the embedded reporter began by observing that there had been empty seats at the Hillary rally he was reporting about (which might just be newsworthy), but he quickly transitioned to saying reporting about how the crowd cheered when Clinton "got in a good dig at Obama." They then began to play the sound bite of the "good dig" at which point I shut off the radio.

Excuse me? Political reporting has sunk to talking about the good digs candidates take at each other? What is this? Politics a la Rikki Lake? Or when you are trying to compare two democrats who have damn little to say different from each other on policy, you feel the need to further trivialize their contest because you can't find anything else to report on?

Come on NPR, I expect better of you.