TV critic Aaron Barnhart writes:

What better sign that Fox News Channel has arrived than the fact that Shepard Smith was the guest on “Late Show with David Letterman” last night?…[snip]
As I said on the radio yesterday, the media world is coming to grips with the fact that Fox News has moved up to its next level of dominance in televised news. Its coverage of the disaster was consistently gripping, more so as the week went on…[snip]
CNN and MSNBC were good, even excellent at times, but I kept gravitating toward Fox because, ironically, I thought I would find less spin and more reporting there.

I agree that FNC consistently delivered the best coverage, but I’ll quibble with one point here: Fox News Channel has arrived? Despite its flaws (for instance, the pre-hurricane overload on Aruba coverage), FNC eats every other cable news net for lunch and has for several years. (via TVNewser)