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What hasn't been asked at this point is "What's in it for the media?"

What if the media takes this opportunity to move back to the center? Brokaw quits - didn't see that coming, but the timing is interesting. If you were an anchor, why quit at this point in history? Literally everything is changing, we are in the midst of a world-wide religious ware, so he quits now?

Rather is done. Jennings? Maybe he's a realist, tired of conceding half the market to Fox right out of the gate.

We may be witnessing the passion of John Kerry. He may be crucified in public by the liberal media. In turn, they use this to move their news departments back to the center as they eat in to Fox's share.

After yesterday, for example, I think people will be tuning into ABC to see what happens next. I don't think they are done yet, by a long shot.

My fear is that this can happen so fast. Amazing how much he hurt himself in 5 minutes. June is a long way off.

Here's the thing: Only the liberal press can kill John Kerry. If Fox tries it, they are labelled an organ of the R party. If ABC does it, they are journalists with the conviction of their journalistic ethics. ABC is going to quietly start laying off of GWB too. They may not say anything positive about GWB, but the negative stuff is done.

ABC is going to start talking up the economy. They are going to start talking about the war in a more positive way (if what everyone is saying about WMD discoveries and OBL capture is true, why would you want your network on the negative side of that story as it breaks?)

If I were ABC, I'd want to start putting my network into a position to celebrate with America. Only Fox is there right now, and for the life of me I don't know who is running things over there right now, but their shtick is getting hard to take. Oil for Food? Memogate? not a peep in a while from Fox. Michael Jackson? I'll bet if you turn it on right now, you could find out faster than you could the weather on your local station.

If the media cans John Kerry, they could move themselves back to the center considerably.