The Sound of Journalists Spinning in their Graves Want to hear the woman the New York Times just dubbed the next Walter Cronkite?

Take a look at Amanda Congdon on ABCNews.com as she talks about spam, Nintendo, an article she read in the New York Times, and javascript. But all you really need to know about Congdon is visible in her opening gesture of welcome.

"What's the weirdest thing about it?" Congdon says of a Tori Spelling yard sale. "How it blurs the line between reality and fiction."

What's the weirdest thing about Congdon on ABCNews.com? How it blurs the line between news and advertising. Don't you just love it when she says, "ABCNews.com—a good way to start the day? I think so." Or when she adds, "I followed an advertiser link to....."

Immature soul that I am, however, I did chuckle a little when she started talking about "life-juice." (Just for the record, she was talking about blood.)

As Congdon would say—and does!—"Thanks for hanging out!"

Meanwhile, Walter Cronkite and Peter Jennings are making like matching propellers.....  ¶ 9:12 AM