This report uses a creative way of making unsourced assertions; rather than following suit with other articles and just telling us whom and what "participants were," these authors use the new age-y, Times-y phrase "a strong current of political engagement coursed through the enormous crowd." The Times take on the rally is that it was an expression of mass dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party by those who would be its supporters.

Informative coverage of the Rally For Sanity, hosted by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Though this is not an in-depth piece and could use more sourcing, it does get the basic facts right, and provides useful context on this interesting cultural event.

Its good journalism because the event exposes weak journalism. Stewart and Colbert have licenses to mock pundit journalism the way it ought to be mocked. You can only laugh at a Glen Beck and his thoroughly unreasonable narratives. Sadly, pundit spouting gets covered these days. The effect of Fox News and "news" shows of the like is to weaken journalism and place the objective truth on its knees.