Miss your flight? There's always skype! Elizabeth Edwards never quite made it to New York, but from the comfy confines of her living room in North Carolina she parried questions from citizen journalists, accountability activists and pollitical operatives. She says - wait for it - online journalism has been good. Some issues, she says, are just "too big" for the mainstream media: Whether Iraq or healthcare, the "mainstream media will shortchange it because the issue is too big for the package."  read more »

It tells you how tight we covering the Congress are. As I was walking to lunch with a press secretary, I spoke with CBS producer Jill Jackson. She was writing a blog on recess at the Capitol. Congress members call it a “district working week”, but I like “recess”.  read more »