John Edwards admission that he lied and dismissed reports of an affair with Rielle Hunter, a filmmaker hired to cover his presidential campaign, may have ended his public life, but did it also signify an end to the era in which the mainstream media controlled the agenda for national political journalism?
"We are going to do everything we can to get through this with as little harm as possible, but I also want to remind people that the cuts are coming, and I don't want to hear any whining."