One of the subplots to last week’s Herman Cain Bad-Press-A-Palooza (bad press that seems to have helped him) was his supposed gaffe in an interview with PBS’ Judy Woodruff on Monday night’s Newshour. The clip has widely been reported as demonstrating that Cain did not know that China has had nuclear weapons since 1964, and that he thinks they still don’t. For a week now, I’ve been waiting for someone to point out that Cain indicated no such thing.

PBS NewsHour gathered together political editor David Chalian and senior correspondents Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff to offer up a little sneak peek of what’s to come in tonight’s CNN / Tea Party Express GOP Debatapalooza.

GOP Presidential candidate Jon Huntsmansat down with PBS NewsHour‘s Jeffrey Brown to discuss the changes he’ll make if he’s elected president of the United States. During the episode, Huntsman reveals that that, if he’s elected, he would “call on all Americans,” even the wealthiest among us, to help repair our struggling economy. But, he clarifies, that might not necessarily mean higher taxes:

As president, I wouldn’t hesitate to call on a sacrifice from all of our people, even those at the very highest end of the income spectrum.I’m not saying higher taxes, but there are contributions they can make too.

The Washington Post reports Jim Lehrer, the anchor of PBS NewsHour and the longest-serving network anchor in the country, has decided to step down in June. He will continue to report for the program, and to moderate a Friday segment for the show, featuring a roundtable of journalists. The move ends a run on the program that began back in 1975. “Amid the cacophony of a sometimes shrill media landscape, he has remained the true voice of reason, balance and fairness,” said the National Press Club’s president, Mark Hamrick, when the club gave Lehrer a career achievement award last month.

The anger over the TSA security procedures makes for the perfect ongoing news story. Sure, that “Ground Zero Mosque” thing had public anger, an easy narrative, and racial undertones, this story has public anger, an easy narrative, and sexual undertones! So much better! As such, every news outlet in the country is begging their readers to send them their “best airport stories” over Twitter, mouths watering at being the first to get that inevitable big, viral video of the day. And you just know their fingers are crossed hoping that it involves see through lingerie again.

In many respects, PBS’ NewsHour With Jim Lehrer is the anti-cable news show. Media Nation’s Dan Kennedy is blunt in his assessment of it: “There is absolutely no need for a serious newscast to be that boring. NPR has hit on a formula that’s intelligent but also keeps things moving.”