PBS Shines, CNN Stumbles in Sotomayor Hearings
Baltimore Sun, July 14, 2009
By David Zurawik
By the end of the morning session of Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination hearing, a clear pattern ion the coverage had emerged: PBS was doing an outstanding job, while CNN was offering some of the worst and most distracting coverage anywhere on TV or online. CNN seemed to think its talking-head analysts mattered more than what was happening in the Senate hearing room.
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