The decision will affect whether Clinton can be heard on anything other than his own survival. The overwhelmingly party-line impeachment vote followed tens of thousands of stories and programs that banged the scandal drums even as most of the public complained about the deafening noise. On that score, the media remain out of touch with their audience, which still sees the whole shebang as a strange Beltway obsession.
Some journalists view the impeachment vote as some sort of validation.
This was on its own track. They kept trying to push it, advance it. They knew it wasn't going away. Starr's report would be taken credibly by the majority party, even if the rest of the country didn't. The press knew there was an underlying problem there with the truth. . . .