Here’s what strikes me:

The real story of this election season, if I may look ahead to November 3 and beyond, is not the Swift Boats, the Texas National Guard, the Vietnam war or even the war on terror and Iraq. No, the real story is this: The media. The media is supposed to REPORT the story. This year, the media IS the story — with CBS News as the pinnacle of a “coming-out” that has been emerging all year. How the traditional media HANDLED the stories, the blogosphere, and so forth is more compelling than what happened in the early 1970′s.

What will tomorrow’s media look like? How does the old media (NYT, LAT, WaPo, ABC, NBC, and of course CBS) regroup, if at all?

Jim