It's so easy to find mean things to say about CNN, though they do open themselves up wide for it. But there's one thing we're kind of loving about the network, and that's its (new?) Backstory feature. Trying to research Bruce Ivins death but not sure about when that post-9/11 anthrax scare started or who received tainted envelopes? CNN's website offers a slideshow panel of the articles leading up to present day — a veritable visual Lexis search of on-going developing stories.

Of course, finding the Backstory on the John Edwards love child scandal might be a little tougher, because, ya know, CNN is kinda just getting on that.