NY magazine is featuring an unusually insightful article about the Foxification of our politics and makes a number of observations that add up to something quite frightening. Here's just one piece of it:

The game may be destroying American politics—but it's the only game in town, and CNN, thus far, is out of it. "Being a passionate centrist is always a bit harder than a raving lunatic on each side," Eliot Spitzer told me. "They do not recognize a reality that Fox and MSNBC recognize," says a former senior CNN staffer. "You have to be real showmen and hook into America, which is blue collar and angry. The CNN culture is still very strange. You walk into that building, you think you're the Jesuits and you're protecting a certain legacy. They still look at Fox as a carnival—not Fox as a brilliant marketing entity. It's weird. They're decades into it, and they'll protect it to the end."