"Without us..."
It is part of the environment they (the TV journalists) live in, but it's still astonishing. If these guys had egos any larger, they would start pulling paper clips off their desks with the gravitational field.
This is only one example of many I have seen that shows the press has an incredibly inflated idea of their own importance in setting national opinion and policy.
Was listening to Rush and caught the tail end of a survey--don't know from where--that indicates that talk radio and cable news are blowing newspapers and network news off the map as sources of news for the average American. Will post more when I get original data.