Today's Quote 12.05.06

"Even if network news is a dinosaur, it still has a huge audience - an aggregate that can be matched nowhere else in the media - and that's a fact often overlooked," said Marquette University Prof Philip M. Seib, author of Going Live: Doing the News Right in a Real-Time Online World. "The lesson of the week is an unmistakable reminder that national broadcast networks can still have a profound effect on political discourse in this country in a way that no single newspaper, with the possible exception of the New York Times, can hope to have."