It seems extraordinary now, but CBS’s mismanagement of its evening news franchise has in only a few years trashed the show’s ratings, led it to consider dumping part of its news-gathering capability, and put Katie Couric in a position where her best career move may require a competition with Ryan Seacrest.

The NYT on how financially-strapped newspapers are sending fewer reporters to tag along on the campaign trail. This seems like a good thing to me - I can’t think now of any genuinely useful reporting to come from the campaign bus. And with the news media’s near-fetishization of McCain as an example, it [...]

Rachel has a stunning piece on Fox and its apparent fetish for Hitler’s resume.

An exceptional comment on Glenn Greenwald’s exceptional post about Monster-gate and off-the-record comments. Glennzilla’s post is now updated, including with this depressingly accurate precis of where we are on MSM political reporting:
Even after the lead-up to Iraq War, eight years of the Bush administration, the Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch fiascoes and an [...]