of your customers, you are going to have a hard time getting them to buy your product. Newspapers are no exception." -- -- -- -- -- -- --  "A recent American study reported that many editors and reporters simply do not trust their readers to make good decisions. Let's be clear about what this means. This is a polite way of saying that these editors and reporters think their readers are too stupid to think for themselves." Of course we're too stupid. Think not? Well, watch any media person defend "journalism" and you'll see some version of "we're really good, but the people, they just don't understand: our job, how we do our job, what's really going on, how smart we have to be", etc. etc. etc. Whenever you have to defend your intelligence because it's not readily apparent, you're in trouble. Then, WaPo notes that many news outlets are offering BO commemorative news products. Is this a problem or just a way to make money? Perhaps it was the announcement that NBC News is coming out with a DVD titled "Yes We Can: The Barack Obama Story." Or that ABC and USA Today are rushing out a book on the election. Or that HBO has snapped up a documentary on Obama's campaign. Perhaps it was the Newsweek commemorative issue -- "Obama's American Dream" -- filled with so many iconic images and such stirring prose that it could have been campaign literature. Or the Time cover depicting Obama as FDR,