There's some good and bad in the special session reporting.

First a quick review of Vegas TV -- Jonathan Humbert, an I-Team reporter at KLAS-TV -- deserves massive credit for hustling out to the Reno airport and finding the governor in yet another lie. The video is telling. http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/category.asp?C=28259&clipId=4570922&autostart=true

Humbert's also kicking butt on legislative stuff. We must disclose he interviewed our sister organization. But that's not why he's good at his job.

KVBC-TV's Steve Crupi, appropos of nothing, interviewed a Democratic Assemblyman who's neither a committee chairman nor in leadership.

And, nothing against Mo Denis, but why is Denis' take on how long the special session will last important? http://www.mynews4.com/story.php?id=11644

The clip is from Sunbelt's Reno station, although it features the Crupi report.

The print coverage varies from Anjeanette Damon's look at the potential for a long session  http://www.rgj.com/article/20100224/NEWS/2240417/Lack-of-progress-could-mean-long-Nevada-special-session and at the potential for a peel-off in the Assembly Republican bloc http://www.rgj.com/article/20100224/NEWS/2240426/1321

The Las Vegas Sun's David McGrath Schwartz has a similar take on Republican peel offs, only he focuses on the Senate GOP spat with the Assembly GOP.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/feb/24/anti-tax-ideology-tests-republicans/

The Review-Journal does the sweeping "the special session opened" type story more befitting of TV. http://www.lvrj.com/news/special-session-opens-in-carson-city-85183852.html

Nothing about the Republicans. Nothing about Gibbons holding the other agenda items hostage. Maybe they'll get around to that for tomorrow's paper.

It's hard to fly in and find context to be sure. That's why it's so important to have on-the-ground staffers like Damon for the RGJ and Schwartz for the Sun.

The RJ's "on the ground" guy, Ed Vogel, is having a hard time finding facts, too. http://www.lvjournalreview.com/fact-checks/199-completely-false