interesting to watch why are so many conservative commentators ganging up on gingrich? president obama s state of the union draws the usual wall to wall television coverage. good evening. while our focus in primetime here in washington tonight will be the president s state of the union address before a joint session of congress at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. to be fair, the attention hasn t been on the president, not for months. within a day the story fades. has the media s attention span grown too short? plus, the new york times reports that a former yale football star withdrew from potential road scholarship after a student filed an informal complaint accusing him of sexual assault. no charges ever filed. is that out of balance? why did the yale daily news sit on the story? i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. if the final days before the primary, newt gingrich needed another strong debate performance to overtake mitt romney. the presidential debates, a