ABC News with David Muir is the most watched nightly news program for a reason, and it is not a good reason.
On July 21, 2025, in no particular order, Mr. Muir entertained his audience like a circus impresario with news of the largest great white shark ever tagged in the Atlantic, one of the Menendez brothers suffering from a kidney stone, a drowning on a beach famous for rip tides, a brief life history of Ozzy Osbourne, king of heavy metal, a Delta Airlines jet nearly getting clobbered by an AeroMexico jet landing on the same runway over top of it, the killer Brian Kohberger’s possible prison destination, Trump accusing Obama of treason, and Billy Joel looking through the window of a New York City pedicab to the delight of two of his fans.
All of this deliciousness took the place of what might have been serious news analysis of, for example, what’s going on in state legislatures, the demise of judicial independence, America’s new tariff imperialism, the insufferable destruction of life in Gaza. But, alas, not to be.
Kimball Shinkoskey, Woods Cross
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