In his marvelous new column/blog Ground Game, Congressional Quarterly’s Eric Pfeiffer notes “the feeling amongst many conservatives that the error of omission was a combination of laziness and inherent bias.”

Does anyone other than conservatives have similar pangs of angst?

Glenn Reynolds did a check and makes this stark observation at Instapundit:

SO I LOOKED AT EDITOR AND PUBLISHER and there’s nothing about the CNN planted-question scandal. There’s one story on the debate, but it’s a puff piece about a cartoonist getting his video in. Then I looked at Poynter and all I could find was this piece on covering the debates. But I’m not seeing anything about the planted-question scandal. I’m not seeing anything at the Columbia Journalism Review site, either. Journalism, cover thyself!

Well, actually I think they are covering . . . .

The only true “wise person” of conventional wisdom willing to tsk tsk CNN I could find is in the Washington Times:

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center said the YouTube format, puts an additional screening burden on organizers: “I’m always concerned when I don’t know how to judge the person asking the question, and it’s not someone who asks questions for a living.”

Yes, we’re all concerned.  Dare we suggest, perplexed?