My wife and I were trying to catch some inaugural coverage on Monday, so naturally we turned to CNN, where we heard…extensive discussion of the dress that Michelle Obama was wearing. Seriously? Yes. A breathless debate about which of the many dresses the first lady had available she was going to choose, and then…breaking news…a phone call from some unknown dressing room…a reporter framed by a dress rack…and…oh no!…massive disappointment that Obama chose the same designer she’d chosen four years ago, leaving CNN’s Alina Cho with very little to say. (She was shocked. Shocked. And I’m not making that up.)

I suspect the arrival of former Today producer (and Harvard grad) Jeff Zucker at CNN probably has a lot to do with this idiocy, but in any case, it was embarrassing to watch. And they wonder why people get their news from Comedy Central.

Jon Stewart noted the same thing, but puts it much better than I could.