Keep Slappin', Hombre

YEAH! (via Atrios)

I was watching the coverage of Howard Dean on CNN last night – and I was impressed. The decision to stop trying to outfox FOX is already becoming apparent. In story after story they completely abstained from getting "reactions" to comments, and instead actually discussed whether or not such comments were true. (Dean's comments about the Republican party being largely "white" and "Christian" did, in fact, stand up to comparative scrutiny).

While it's important to acknowledge that CNN was the first cable network to cheapen the entire journalistic profession by listing starboard and surrendering air time to crackpot punditry, I have high hopes that they will revive the notion that objective reporting can be commercially viable.

That the Downing Street memo has gotten any attention at all, let alone a minor scuffle in the White House press room, is remarkable. If the pendulum is indeed swinging back to center, it's because it's being pushed – by tough bastards like Dean.