CNN's "aggressive and impassioned reporting provided the biggest surprise and offered perhaps the finest coverage in the network's history," Eric Alterman writes in The Nation.

"Chris Lawrence described 'babies 3, 4, 5 months old, living in these horrible conditions.... These people are being forced to live like animals.' Paula Zahn grilled the hapless Bush crony Michael Brown, who pretends to direct FEMA..."

Alterman also says Jack Cafferty's commentaries were impressive... (Via Romenesko)