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Personally, I think there are lots of things television excels at in the realm of news and public affairs. I have enormous respect for quite a few television journalists, and occasionally one of them convinces me to subdue my stage fright and go on TV. But in the heat of television, sober reflection on serious, subtle questions tends to lose out to the glib, the confrontational, the sensational, the snide, the belligerent. At its worst — and on this subject, much of television has been at its worst — it's not discussion. It's mud wrestling.
-- Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times
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