Cable news channels are an odd beast.  Pressured by the need to provide BREAKING NEWS NOW 24 hours a day, they resort to an overload of minutia everytime something potentially newsworthy is on the horizon.  Take the latest hurricane, Gustav.   For the last few days, it’s been on a seemingly unnerving “not again” path of destruction towards New Orleans.  Fortunately, it seems to have both diminished in fortitude and hit landfall away from the Big Easy.  What are the cable news networks to do?  CNN’s news anchors are all dressed up in those pretty bright red slickers.  All morning long the headlines have SCREAMED that the levees overtopped.  All morning long, the footage has focused on the Industrial Canal levee which, even by Soledad O’Brien’s description was that the “water was lapping over the levee”.  Hyperbole, much?