Quote Originally Posted by Edith
...Not much to report but almost constant coverage
Congress decided to postpone its hearings into the deeds of Attorney-General Gonzales "out of respect for the dead". This is actually "out of respect for the newspaper headlines" because they know this will be a 24- to 48-hour wonder that will crowd out their own headline-making event. It's the reverse of that British politician who remarked on 7/11 2001 "This would be a good day for us to publish any bad news"