From the NYT:

It’s official: the networks no longer cover news, they slap it onto the bottom edge of their regular programming like Post-it notes.

There were crawls (“Huckabee drops out”) and brief updates, but viewers who wanted to immerse themselves in the speculation and suspense — and Tuesday night was arguably a more critical and dramatic election than Super Tuesday — were relegated to cable news.

Not that CNN and its brethren did a bad job. It’s just that Tuesday night’s showdown between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton was momentous. Not having a prime-time election report on ABC, CBS or NBC was a little like celebrating an anniversary at an all-you-can-eat buffet instead of a fancy French restaurant: nobody leaves hungry, but it would have been nice to mark the event with a decent wine and starched linen napkins.

Some MPs in Afghanistan have lended their angry voices to protests about the Muhammad cartoons in Denmark and a right-wing Dutch politician's film about 'fascist' Islam.