Perhaps another reason that it was harder to simply shrug off these comments was because of another, far more consequential, story in the news at the time.
It was a consequential day for international news, with reports that the Egyptian military had fired on protesters supporting the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, leaving hundreds of people dead.
More consequential in the short term was news that reliever Scott Atchison was placed on the 15-day disabled list a day after feeling numbness in his pitching hand.
It broke and stayed ahead on the most consequential of the stories, the stunning news that Spitzer, who brought a moralistic approach to government, was "Client 9" of an international prostitution ring.
As government gets bigger and more consequential, the worry is not that there will be no one to purvey the news but that the news will no longer remain an independent and countervailing power.
The tyranny of the new, the next, the things to come, is a requirement of news, but it can render any victory, even great big ones, small and less consequential.
David: But I still follow the other political news closely and I still think politics is the most complicated and consequential of human activities, and very much worth obsessing about.
In his view, the news media are "just satisfying a consumer demand no more elevated or consequential than the demand for cosmetic surgery in Brazil or bullfights in Spain".
Unfortunately, rife with fake news, the tool is just another of Twitter's small yet increasingly consequential disasters.
Which is why, as evening draws nigh, the "news" that X has replaced Y on the Z evening newscast seems as consequential in the great scheme of things as the reordering of Hummel figurines on a suburban sideboard.
