What Is This "News" You Speak of?

Charles Homans:

I think that TV airtime is such a non-scarce commodity at this point that it doesn't really matter what you do. You can't dominate an atomized discourse--people predisposed to crackpotism will find it whether or not one more reasonable person is on TV. The only people who matter are the producers and executives who have the ability to deprive these stories of oxygen and don't.

It's times like this that I wish more news outlets behaved like Fox and Drudge. They...