Holy mother of Mergatroid. CNN has canceled “Crossfire.”

CNN/U.S. President Jonathan Klein sided yesterday with comedian Jon Stewart, who used a “Crossfire” appearance last fall to rip the program as partisan hackery. “I think he made a good point about the noise level of these types of shows, which does nothing to illuminate the issues of the day,” Klein said in an interview. Viewers need “useful” information in a dangerous world, he said, “and a bunch of guys screaming at each other simply doesn’t accomplish that.”

The news isn’t all wonderful, of course – they’ll be rolling a “Crossfire” segment into “Inside Politics.” But we’ll take it.

[Thanks for Denny Wilkins for the tip.]