Here is what I consider to be Eric Alterman's money-quote:
Whatever its final outcome, I suppose the Bushites should congratulate themselves for getting away with it this long, and the rest of us who care about the continued functioning of our democracy should be grateful that we still have newspapers and we now have blogs. Because if all we had were television stations, well—as the playwright Tom Stoppard has written, “No matter how imperfect things are, if you’ve got a free press, everything is correctable. Without it, everything is concealable.”It's a good article. Go read it.
But a free press only works if the press itself works. And altogether too often, broadcast and cable prefer to look the other way.
As for the results of the media reaction (after TPM prodded them into action), at the end of the Roundtable on ABC's Sunday morning talking heads show "This Week", George Stephanapolus asked his four panel members (Brazile, George Will and two others) who among them thought that Gonzales would still be Attorney-General in a month. The silence and lack of movement was carefully covered by the cameras for what must have been almost a full minute.
Looks like Gonzales is toast. These are the last people to admit to the obvious after everyone else has done so.
