(Also see slideshow: "How Newspapers Covered Health Care.")
The health-care debate is over, but the shouting isn't.
All across the media, whether inclined left, right, or center, one thing was clear: Sunday night's House vote was a very, very big moment.
So how did the cable TV shows, bloggers, and traditional media play the historic roll-call? TheWrap brings you a sampling ...
Starting with Fox News, which let the audio and video tell most of the story at the moment, then quickly moved to is commentators. After several hours of right-of-center posturing, the Fox talking heads actually took a very measured, serious approach, nodding to the effort it took for Democratic leaders -- namely the hated Nancy Peosi -- to carry the day:
Over on the other side of the cable argument, at MSNBC, they lingered on the floor a little bit longer, savoring the real-time audio until they got the gavel out:
On to the blogs.
Over at the lefty Huffingtonpost, they went with a Democratic buzzword headline:
While the good folks at the Drudge Report saw adding 30 million to the insurance rolls as akin to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor:
To be fair, the Drudge banner was the second image on the page.
This was the first:
Someone needed to light a fire under the intern at Rush Limbaugh's homepage, where, hours after the vote, they were still defending the Alamo:
They played it pretty straight at Politico; or, one could argue, they let Pelosi's face (and big stick) do the talking:
And last but not least, our friends across the pond made our health-care struggle their top story, though they seemed kinda ho-hum about it. And why should they be impressed? They've had health care for years ...
