Apparently it had not been covered by real journalists . The blowhards have all the charm of car alarms, and the world would be a more civilized place without cable television, which is where most of them hang out. Worse, their influence grows. Mainstream television is increasingly eager to do the same awful things they do.
Correspondents speculate rather than report, while anchors look terribly solemn.
Network television is where Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel pretend to be serious thinkers. It offends their sense of divine ordination. It seems the old order in journalism has been overturned, and the barbarians are at the gates. The soap opera in the White House might not necessarily have ended happily, but surely it would have been less messy. The blue dress might have stayed in the closet.