When former FCC Commissioner Newton Minow famously observed that television was a "vast wasteland," cable news hadn't even been invented yet. With hundreds of channels in today's media marketplace Minow's wasteland has grown even vaster -- but narrower as well. The bandwidth occupied by CNN, for example, is a black hole that lays to waste intelligent thought, responsible journalism and viewer sanity.
Take Wolf Blitzer (please!). How many times an hour does he refer to "the best political...
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