Sorry to burn a diary on this, folks, but my time tonight is short and I wanted to call your attention to two pieces up on ePluribus Media:
The Scream of the Peacock ... Journalism vs Infotainment by Roxy and Secular Saviors: Science Steps Up by me.
Both touch on topics that I think everyone here will find interesting and well worth the read, but with the focus here on the candidate diaries it wasn't likely that any crossposting would have helped.
Excerpts from the opening sections of each below the fold.