Cable news- I don't think so. As I.P. stated above, by the time most of the blowdried newsreader monkeys get their paws on stuff it's three days old in blog land, and far too often spun into near fable quality nonsense in addition to being dated.

The one thing I continue to watch on the eejit box is the panel shows- Brit Hume's bunch, lil' Steffie the dwarf's show (due to George Will), Dennis Miller now and again, the dude on MSNBC with the show called Scarborough(?) country, and Tim Russert when he has an interesting victim on. I consider these the raw feeds for a lot of the commentary on the blogs (i.e. clarke the error free lizard on russert last sunday), so it's interesting to compare and contrast my impressions with various bloggers.

Think the current election cycle will be an incredibly interesting one- for the first time, blogs have enough readership and credibility to affect the public debate on the worthiness of the respective candidates... the arrogant "king makers" of the traditional media outlets no longer hold a monopoly on information, so their egregious distortions of reality won't resonate nearly so much this go around. The concept of "fact checkin' yer ass" comes to mind here. Ah, Capitalism in the marketplace of ideas- what a grand thing.

Right then- apologies all for the bloviating blather... it won't happen again.

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