Beer summit


A toast to slow news days

Barack Obama told the press not to expect too much from his drinks with Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr and Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley — and he sure delivered.

Cable news reaches new lows with “beer summit” countdown

US cable news networks love a good gimmick — especially if it involves the shameless use of over-the-top graphics and animations — but MSNBC and CNN took the cake today, with both networks running live countdown clocks to Obama’s over-hyped “beer summit”.