THESE SHOWS WERE A BIG DEAL IN THE 1980S AND 1990S. I watched 5 — 5! — of the Sunday morning shows and ended up with not one thing I wanted to blog. “It was all crushingly dull. The pundits really don’t seem to have anything more to say.”

I think the demise of the Sunday shows really started when the Monica Lewinsky story came out, and Sam Donaldson said that if it was true, Bill Clinton would have to resign. And that was huge, except that it was true, and Bill Clinton didn’t resign, and people realized that what gets said on these shows didn’t actually influence much.