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On the Media this week acknowledged what the New York Times and Wall Street Journal subsequently got to: Pornography not only exists, but technologically sometimes leads the way. The Times tells us porn actually won't lead the way in HD because the pictures are just a little too real. While the WSJ talks about porn as key in the standards battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD. Although OTM's tech expert interview subject says porn might not play a big role, because they do less and less of their stuff on DVD, and more on cable, satellite, Internet and wireless.

OTM also this week also lets Dennis Kucinich's former media advisor Jeff Cohen tell us that the reason Kucinich isn't taken as a serious candidate is because of arrogant, holier-than-thou reporters who know what's best for voters better than voters do.

We could certainly argue a connection between the story — about mainstream news media's arrogance and lack of touch with the real public — and another OTM'er this week on how bad a year '06 was for newspapers, with declining circulation and no 20-somethings reading them. Our argument would also note that the supercilious, self-important nature of so many "journalists" — why the f*ck can't we say "reporters" anymore? Because it doesn't sound as "important?" — helps account for the popularity of The Daily Show and Colbert Report, which call out the bombast. Which reminds us:

Where was Colbert/O'Reilly on OTM?

Heck, they could'a had a field day with it — even matched O'Reilly's trick of bringing on conserva-pundit Bernie Goldberg for a few gratuitous pot-shots with a few gratuitous pot-shots of their own at Fox.

Maybe they didn't have room, because they had to tell us it's political season, what with Barack and Hillary doing their Web video schticks. Yep, if the analysis of the analysis is starting, the '08 campaign has truly begun.