On his blog, Paul Krugman gets off on, as he warns, a small rant about the Pertraeus hearing coverage. Read it all, but he begins:
One of my pet peeves about political reporting is the fact that some of my journalistic colleagues seem to want to be in another business – namely, theater criticism. Instead of telling us what candidates are actually saying – and whether it’s true or false, sensible or silly – they tell us how it went over, and how they think it affects the horse race.