Ok, "blackout", not so much, so much. What me, hyperbolize?

But "major"? How about the CBS Evening News? The View? The Today Show? The New York Times? Keith Olbermann?

And how about they call it for what it is, and report it because of that, for its own sake, not just out of defensive maneuvering, reluctantly, after they realize it's finally coming throught the dike anyway despite their efforts, like with Edwards' love child, or Reverend Wright's race-baiting......