Which is it? Was today's hearing a big nothingburger as some promised or SO important that MSNBC's

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Neither. I would have preferred that they showed it, but

there was a helicopter crash in NYC and more people are interested in air accidents (especially when they crash into buildings in NYC) than in Congressional hearings. CNN and MSNBC follow the principle that if it bleeds it leads because that attracts eyeballs and pays for advertising. That's just the way it is. However, it wasn't irresponsible because the people who were interested would have watched it live on C-SPAN or some other streaming service or will catch it later somewhere on the Internet. I'm sure Rachel Maddow will cover it thoroughly. I think what's at least as important is that Dean's testimony might have educated some of the dim bulbs in the GOP House who are too young (and/or stupid) to remember how Watergate got started and how it finally went down.