1.   Political reporting has become a staple of American journalism.

2.   Although everyone knows this will happen, it may well be the most misunderstood story in American journalism.

3.   American journalism gives readers who want it the widest, freest variety of news to be found anywhere in the world.

4.   American journalism sorely needs improvement.

5.   And American journalism, wherever you read it, is perhaps the most innovative in the world.

6.   And that in American journalism it is up to editors and reporters to do the talking while the customers shut up and pay attention.

7.   But American journalism, like American diplomacy and politics, has failed to show the clear line that connects the stories.

8.   But the son rebelled, creating the biggest rift in American journalism.

9.   From William Randolph Hearst to Ted Turner, American journalism has created a pantheon of larger-than-life media moguls.

10.   Has American journalism found a new bete noire?