The necessary backdrop for the revolution to be televised

It's now clear that the new standard for any kind of mass movement to make it to our TV screens with approving coverage is that: the crowd must be good looking. We noted this phenomenon for Kiev and Beirut and in a funny Washington Post piece today, Tina Brown confirms that it was true for Rome as well:

"Italians look so good, too," one cable anchor told me. "No one's fat over there."