When I walked into the ING coffee shop this morning and looked up to see the CNN “news reports” about the flap over President Obama’s comments regarding Professor Gates’s arrest by the Cambridge police, I was reminded once again how much the quality of journalism has  generally declined during the last decade -- and how it has filled the American public’s brain with half-baked sound bites and quarter-truths.   What makes Made-For-TV journalism so dangerous is that there are a lot of people out there wh