From Wilshire & Washington:

Most of the demonstrators started heading back from where they came, and headed south on Marion Street. It was here that a flash bomb struck just at my feet, to which I shouted, along with other reporters, "Media!" What I did not hear --- either in the confusion or because my ears were ringing temporarily from the explosive --- was an officer who told the crowd, "This is the police department. The main method of leaving is south bound. Those who do not leave here are subject to arrest."

But I was walking and heading south bound anyway, along with other media and most of the other protesters, looking for an exit. But there was none, as the police had surrounded all of us on Marion Street Bridge.

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I was arrested along with about a dozen or so other journalists --- including reporters from AP and Fox News' Web operations --- after the demonstrators marched along St. Anthony Street to University Avenue, blocking traffic as squad cars escorted behind them. But things got ugly when a flank of officers in riot gear blockaded University Avenue, and soon smoke bombs and other mild explosives were being hurled toward the protesters, and some officers shot rubber bullets into the crowd. One explosive, a flash grenade, landed just at my feet; a reporter for a Google news Website was drenched in a type of tear gas.

The demonstrators (along with the media) were eventually forced onto the Marion Street bridge that crosses I-94, where another flank of riot officers had them cornered. It was then that we were told that we were all being arrested. In all, there were about 200 who were detained. I was held for about 4 hours.

FishbowlDC has obtained an internal NPR memo, which reveals that "NPR has reached an agreement with CBS Entertainment to create a television pilot based on Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!"

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Check out the TamCam's interview with ABC News' Rick Klein.

What prank picture greeted people entering washingtonpost.com/Newsweek's online coverage studio at the RNC?

Today, Washington Post Executive Editor Len Downie had his last day at the paper in that position.

Each day, the noon and 6 p.m. story conferences are called by ringing a
triangle/dinner bell over the intercom.

Today, they were called by the recorded playing of the Ohio State fight
song, to honor the Ohio State alum.

The White House's National Security Advisor, Stephen Hadley, put out a statement today disputing some of the assertions made by Bob Woodward in his newest book, "The War Within."

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When Zelda said to call 911, I again resisted, but she again prevailed. I promptly suffered another seizure in the ambulance, the second of three seizures that day. I gained admittance to the high-quality Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, which has an excellent oncology staff. A biopsy was performed, which showed a large, grade IV tumor. In answer to my question, the oncologist estimated that I had six months to a year to live. Being read your death sentence is like being a character in one of the old Bette Davis movies.

I believe I was able to withstand this shock because of my Catholic faith, to which I converted in 1998.

I then called Dr. Donald Morton of the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, Calif., who removed a cancer from my lung in 1994 and has been a friend and close medical advisor.
He told me that different people react to serious cancers in different ways and reminded me that I was a three-time cancer survivor.

Dr. Morton recommended Dr. Allan H. Friedman, a master surgeon who is chief of neurosurgery at the Duke University Medical Center.

After studying my CT scan and MRI, Dr. Friedman said a resection -- that is, a removal of the tumor -- was possible by surgery. Dr. Friedman had performed a similar operation this summer on Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts.

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We'll be Twittering from the Republican Convention and our updates will feed into this post throughout the week. We'll be adding other FishbowlDC posts throughout the week, which will always appear below.

Washington Post: Carolyn Hax Live

Washington Examiner: On the 'Mao-Maoing' of Gov. Sarah Palin

N.Y. Times: Judith Warner: The Mirrored Ceiling

L.A. Times: With homeowner in doghouse, bobcats move in

USA Today: Analysis: Speech launches a new fight

Politico: Poll: Democratic bounce gone, race tied

ABC News: Palin Switched Colleges 6 Times in 6 Years

CBS News: CBS Poll: McCain, Obama Tied

Fox News: Texas Woman Kills Home Intruder With His Own Gun

CNN: Trooper in Palin probe tells his side

Wall Street Journal: Opinion: Sarah Palin's Surge

MSNBC: Protect against dangers of 3 quiet cancers

Congressional Quarterly: Congressman Sees Obamas as Part of a Class 'That Thinks They're Uppity'

NPR: Pageant Protest Sparked Bra-Burning Myth

Roll Call: More Than 300 Arrested Thursday Night in St. Paul

Details here.

Who says competing networks can't sit down over a milkshake?

Above, NBC's Tom Brokaw and Hollywood heavyweight Barry Levinson sharing a meal this week at the CNN Grill.

Wednesday night, CNN Worldwide chief marketing officer Scot Safon made sure to give his due to Barry for his inadvertent part of making the Grills happen. Back before the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City , Scot pitched the idea of the "CNN Diner" to his colleagues and to sell the concept he referenced the iconic Barry Levinson-directed film, "Diner."

We had a feeling that NBC wasn't liking all this anti-MSM (and NBC in particular) sentiment coming out of the Republican National Convention.

News executives Thursday tried to shake off the excoriations of the media emanating from the Republican National Convention, defending their coverage of GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin as responsible and evenhanded.

While top television network officials and newspaper editors largely dismissed the critiques as partisan rhetoric, some fretted that charges of media bias had reached a new and disturbing level.

"I really do take exception to it," NBC News President Steve Capus said. "These terms get thrown around in an awfully cavalier way, and they're incredibly damaging. We're in the business where words matter, and those are awfully, awfully strong accusations."

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The Observer asks: "Just How New Is This 'War on the Media' Tack?"

From Howard Kurtz:

Hume traffics in wry humor and droll observation, a low-key style that belies the voracious interest he has always had in politics. But that appetite has faded, which is why the 32-year television veteran has just anchored his last convention.

In cable news, says Hume, "you work quite hard. I've got to be in there with my hands. I'm 65, for God's sake. I don't want to do all that stuff anymore." He is retiring at year's end as Fox's Washington managing editor but will continue as a part-time pundit.

As a conservative who doesn't hesitate to accuse much of the mainstream media of left-leaning bias, Hume stands at the crossroads of an increasingly shrill debate over political coverage. And he sounds worn down by the constant battering.

"It's dispiriting," he says. "This is just partisan poison, and after a while you get tired of covering it."

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