I was talking to a CNN researcher last night who was agog at the coverage the convention was receiving on her channel. Here on the ground, where she was filing reports to the higher-ups at the network, the conventon seem united and smooth. On her network, it seemed like a civil war. Similarly, Mark Schmitt and Harold Meyerson both filed piece on their travels around the hall. Mark finds that the various constituency tracks are intersecting, not playing against each other. And Harold Meyerson finds Jason Furman, centrist econ-won extraordinaire, hanging out chummily in the labor skybox. My understanding, meanwhile, is that the cable networks have spent the morning reporting on roman columns because, as far as I understand it, they're made up of idiots. This week has really driven home the old George Saunders line that asking someone to tell you the truth, and asking them to tell you as much truth as they can while turning the maximum profit, are not the same things.
