Stop Press: Cable News Is Sh*t

Politics Daily columnist Walter Shapiro subjected himself to a horrible feat of endurance recently. In the interests of science, he forced himself to watch nothing but cable news for an entire week. Can't say his conclusions were very surprising:

"At the end of my long cable news nightmare, I realized that there is a societal problem more serious than the curare-tipped ideological invective that is such a prime-time ratings generator for Fox News and MSNBC. And that is that – despite rare exceptions like Fareed Zakaria – cable TV is a major contributor to the dumbing down of the American voter."

A distinct absence of excrement, Sherlock.