One I forgot to post yesterday -- Tom Rosenstiel of the Project for Excellence in Journalism laments the slow death of network news.

Rosenstiel's observations are accurate -- and important for anyone interested in the future of news:

"What difference will it make that the networks are ceding TV journalism to cable? Network news was built around the carefully written and edited story, produced by correspondents and vetted in advance to match words and pictures....

"Cable news is a live and extemporaneous medium built around talk.

"What is lost in the cable obsession with "live" is the chance to double-check, to rewrite, to edit -- and often to even report. What is lost with the passing of network TV, in other words, is the journalism of verification. It is gradually yielding place to a journalism of assertion."