From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

The 46th Quadrenial National Convention of the Democratic Party will now come to order.

This week, thousands of political partisans descended upon Charlotte, North Carolina for the

Democratic Convention, an event such as this country had not witnessed since last week

when thousands of partisans descended upon Tampa for the Republican Convention.

But whereas the GOP confab was characterized by speech after speech from the likes of New Jersey

Governor Chris Christie, Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan, and presidential candidate

Mitt Romney, the hallmark of the Democrats nominating celebration was speeches by Bill Clinton,

First Lady Michelle Obama, and her husband, Barack.

I'm the president. He said other stuff too, which we knew he would because the media were there in force to listen to the speeches, to speculate about them beforehand, and to analyze them afterwards.

We will have Vice President Biden's speech and then President Obama's nomination acceptance speech,

along with all the reaction and analysis you've come to expect here on Fox News Channel.

The crowd is fired up and the speakers are ready to go.

The Marquis speaker tonight, former President Bill Clinton.

Tonight, Bill Clinton will step to the stage to do something that no former president has ever done.

The First Lady of the United States, not hitting a home run, but probably a grand slam.

NBC's Tom Brokaw compared the modern political convention to an infomercial, by which he meant a thoroughly staged long-form ad.

But there is one major difference.

The makers of exercise equipment and get-rich-quick schemes have to pay to get their ads on TV.

In Tampa and Charlotte, the networks and cable channels donated their time and then

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