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Tom Shales is pissed as all hell at the Networks for not showing more of the convention.  Read all about it, as well as his comments on the speeches, and mockery of the cable channels, here, here and here.  The one channel to avoid Shales' venom is PBS.  I have to say whatever I feel about the Networks decision, I am glad that Jim Lehrer and friends are getting such good ratings. 

Since you will probably never go and read all Shales will say (although you should!), here is my favorite line from Thursday's article.

Katie Couric told viewers of yesterday's "Today" show on NBC that Illinois legislator Barack Obama had "electrified" the crowd with his stunningly eloquent speech Tuesday night. Too bad NBC refused to show it. Too bad profit-mad NBC-Universal was determined to air its lame reality shows and sitcom reruns instead.

And then Couric tells us we really should've been there. The networks are just plain nuts.
 
Robert Bianco of USA Today is also really mad.