CNN: So You Think You Can Report?

Denver Post media critic Joanne Ostrow on CNN's shameless Grade The President! 100 Days stunt: When you goose the proceedings to feel like a cross between election night and "So You Think You Can Dance," you've given in to the lowest of the lowest common denominators. There's a reason schools are abandoning the A-B-C grading scale. Those letter grades don't tell you anything. The system is simplistic. It plays into preconceived ideas and puts a halt to thinking. After CNN's performance Wednesday night, thinking and cable news have never felt farther apart.

Makes me yearn for the CNN holograms...