JonBenet season again

Doug Mataconis over at Below the Beltway could have an inside track while he speculates JonBenet as a post election ratings booster--

Time To Get Ready For More Natalee Holloway And JonBenet

Over the last three months of the 2008 presidential campaign, ratings for the cable news channel MSNBC were up 158 percent over the same period a year earlier. They were up 101 percent for the Fox News Channel. On Comedy Central, “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” hit a record high of 3.6 million viewers for a guest appearance by Senator Barack Obama on Oct. 29.

For cable channels with strong points of view, it was a very good election. But for all the news media outlets that set viewership records in recent months, the looming question after Senator Obama’s election is: what happens now?