“Dateline NBC: To Catch a Predicament”

While others are still wringing their hands over Rosie O’Donnell’s abdication of her role as purveyor of the cultural imperative at “The View” (a story this blog broke – well, at least it broke the fact that TMZ.com broke it), Your Mayor prefers to look forward, to the next pop-culture debacle, which is what Phil Spector’s murder trial promises to be.

Radar is reporting that “Dateline NBC” producer Adam Gorfain will sit on Spector’s jury, despite having (sort of) covered the case for the network. (Just what NBC News needs right now: more controversy.) Actually, Radar is reporting that Eric Longabardi of The Enterprise Report is reporting that, which is not unlike me breaking the news of TMZ.com breaking the news of Rosie’s departure.

Too bad the judge has already declared that cameras will be allowed in the court; the spectacle would’ve carried much creepier undertones had the whole thing been shot through a microcamera hidden in Gorfain’s jacket lapel.

Gorfain has also led up reports on shoddy work at DNA labs in the past, which might account for why Spector’s attorney would’ve allowed someone with so much knowledge about the case on the jury. Because, as we all know, the American justice system works best when know-nothing twits serve on juries.

OK, so we have someone conversant in DNA on the jury; seems to me that experts on hair and insanity might come in handy, as well. Perhaps Spector’s trial would be a good time to reunite Britney Spears and the Tarzana woman who refused to shave her head. That way, we make life a little easier for the poor, oppressed paparazzi, who no doubt in recent days have been fretting over which asinine celebrity to stalk. And if the jury is sequestered, all the better to help keep Britney on the wagon.