Commentary from USA Today criticizes most of the networks for blathering too much during the Democratic convention and not giving us much actual convention coverage. I always channel surf during major news events to see the different perspectives. But during both conventions I eventually found myself wishing that C-SPAN didn’t change into Bravo in the evening on my cable service. The reasoning for most everything staged by both parties was too obvious to warrant much commentary, and I just wanted to watch what was going on, not what every political analyst, historian, and presidential biographer thought was going on. I did notice major differences in the audio. MSNBC had the loudest crowd noise. PBS had subdued crowd noise and the best podium audio. CNN had a decent balance between the two. (article via MediaNews)