Via Brad DeLong…  Matthew Yglesias, experiences a moment of enlightenment…

The trouble with having Bill Kristol as a New York Times columnist is not just that he’s prone to saying substantive things about the issues that I disagree with. He’s also the kind of guy who when he goes out on a weird limb and says Mike Huckabee would have a good chance of winning in a general election, you immediately start wondering why he’s saying that.

"Because he believes it" doesn’t tend to rank very high on the list. That’s his rep, and based on his record it seems like a deserved rep. But when you read your morning paper and find yourself wondering why, exactly, its authors are trying to mislead you, then your morning paper is suddenly not so useful.

Duh!  I used to read the morning paper religiously.  Haven’t touched one in years…literally years.  Same with the evening network news.  Even as my TV time began to dwindle, I always kept my evening appointment with the network news.  No more.  And I’m in that age group who supposedly are still mostly regular newspaper readers, and network news viewers.