Which Republican presidential candidate (and noncandidate) dominate the news currently?  Does Palin, who is barely newsworthy these days, except as a novelty act, benefit from the fact that the news concentrates on her and not on, say, that guy who just quit CNN?  (You know, the nicely dressed blond guy with the butch haircut...).  And are Bachmann's views really more newsworthy than those of oth…