Then there is Andrew Cohen, who has been covering this story on a Washington Post blog that serves as a sort of deathwatch anticipating Gonzales' demise.

CNN: Navarrette: Will Gonzales get a fair hearing?

Sorry TiVo, but we're declaring this deathwatch until further notice.

ENGADGET: TiVo Deathwatch

Nah, their demise is not a foregone conclusion, but given events of the past few months (and as much as it tears us up inside to do this), we're launching a TiVo deathwatch.

ENGADGET: TiVo Deathwatch

In fact, it's the exact opposite: most consumers choose to get by with awful cable- or satellite-company DVRs, and TiVo's only just barely pulled a full year of profitability, two factors that have kept it firmly on deathwatch since 2005.

ENGADGET: Ten years of TiVo: how far we haven't come