I am just back from a week in Cuba. Yes it was difficult lying in the sun and listening to rock 'n' roll on my new Ipod.

I took a year's worth of New York Times magazine clippings with me to read by the pool. But like any news junkie, I needed my fix.

The television offered at the hotel had several Spanish stations, a German news network, a Chinese news station with anchors that spoke perfect English, the Weather Channel, HBO and CNN.

I hadn't really noticed before that CNN has no news. They pick one topic and beat it to death.

The issue covered last week was the American primaries.

I don't know how they fill so much airtime with so little content. Talking heads repeating the same stuff over and over.

The only other story mentioned during the week was about a mother who took a pressure-hose to her daughter in a car wash somewhere in the United States.

I should mention that Lou Dobbs in his take on the primaries, took a stab at discussing Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's promises to review NAFTA.

He seemed totally surprised, shocked really, when his guest, federal NDP leader Jack Layton, told him that NAFTA hadn't been kinder to Canadian workers than it had been to American ones.

I am sure Layton is the pinkest person ever to appear on CNN.

This week, of course, there is only one story on CNN again. A governor had sex with a prostitute. Is there any wonder why so many Americans get their news from the Comedy Network's The Daily Show?