Congratulations to C-SPAN for winning the bid to broadcast this event. They narrowly beat out HGTV 2, QVC South America, and the Hilton Hotel “How to Check Out” channel. But as I look out at all of the media here with us tonight, I realize this is all just one big high school cafeteria. Think about it: Fox is the jocks, MSNBC is the nerds, bloggers are the goths, NPR is the table for kids with peanut allergies, Al Jazeera is the weird foreign exchange student that nobody talks to. And print media, I didn’t forget you, you’re that poor kid who died sophomore year in a car crash. (But cheer up:
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