Attention Media: Sarah Palin Has a Great Appreciation For You - Posted October 1, 2008
"I've read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press for the media, I mean..." Offered Sarah Palin. Katie Couric, "Like what ones specifically? I'm curious that you..." "Um, all of 'em, any of 'em that um have been in front of me over all these years, um..." We'd just like... [FishBowlLA]

Morning Reading List, 09.23.08 - Posted September 23, 2008
Good morning Washington. Do you know what grocery store this is? (Hint: It's in Rep. Bilbray's district). Email us if you do. (And, after the jump, find out just who that young journo was that we posted yesterday...and who guessed it correctly). Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday,... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 09.11.08 - Posted September 11, 2008
Good morning Washington. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. We've got your morning mix of media Muesli after the jump...... [FishBowlDC]

Dobbs Taking Up Brown's Time - Posted August 13, 2008
An emailer asks: "What was up with Lou Dobbs running 2:03 into the 8p hour (election center)?" We checked TVEyes, and Dobbs did, in fact, run until at least 8:02:00 last night into the time slot of Campbell Brown: Election Center. It's rare for prime time cable news programs to go... [TVNewser]

Dobbs Taking Up Brown's Time - Posted August 13, 2008
An emailer asks: "What was up with Lou Dobbs running 2:03 into the 8p hour (election center)?" We checked TVEyes, and Dobbs did, in fact, run until at least 8:02:00 last night into the time slot of Campbell Brown: Election Center. It's rare for prime time cable news programs to go... [TVNewser]

July Ratings: CNN's Growth in Prime Demo - Posted July 29, 2008
CNN showed more growth in the weekday A25-54 demo during prime time (8pm-11pmET) than any other cable news network in July. Campbell Brown: Election Center at 8pmET is up 33% in demo, 20% in Total Viewers from last July's Paula Zahn Now. Lou Dobbs Tonight at 7pmET is up 19% in demo... [TVNewser]

July Ratings: CNN's Growth in Prime Demo - Posted July 29, 2008
CNN showed more growth in the weekday A25-54 demo during prime time (8pm-11pmET) than any other cable news network in July. Campbell Brown: Election Center at 8pmET is up 33% in demo, 20% in Total Viewers from last July's Paula Zahn Now. Lou Dobbs Tonight at 7pmET is up 19% in demo... [TVNewser]

LAT Dust Up -- The Fall of the Paper Blamed on Illegals! - Posted July 8, 2008
Today's question was: What's eating the L.A. Times? Would the paper be better off outside the Tribune Co. empire? All week, Marc Cooper and Patrick Frey discuss the future of The Times and journalism in Southern California. The 'readers' respond. Some say it's the Chandler family's fault. Some blame their paper delivery... [FishBowlLA]

CNN Declares Its Independence - Posted July 4, 2008
CNN's newest promo campaign sounds like it could be for just their 7pmET show, Lou Dobbs Tonight. The newest push has been CNN positioning itself as the "independent" network, in contrast to how it views FNC and MSNBC. David Doss, EP of both Anderson Cooper 360 and CNN Election Center, describes the... [TVNewser]

Morning Reading List, 02.05.08 - Posted February 5, 2008
Happy Super Tuesday Washington! Better yet, it's Bobby Brown's birthday! Quickly navigate Morning Reading List: REVOLVING DOOR | NEWSPAPERS | TV | ONLINE MEDIA | RADIO | JOBS Most of you wake up a couple of times during the night. NEWSPAPERS "For news media, the emergence of Bill Clinton as a key public player in the... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 01.08.08 - Posted January 8, 2008
Happy New Hampshire Primary Day Washington! On this day in 1790, President George Washington delivered our first State of the Union. In 1992, Bush 41 puked on Japanese Prime Minister Miyazawa Kiichi, and, in 2006, Tom DeLay resigned as House Majority Leader. Happy 41st R Kelly! (Hat tip: MicCheckRadio) Quickly navigate Morning Reading... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 12.18.07 - Posted December 18, 2007
Good morning Washington. Don Rumsfeld resigned a year ago today and Brad Pitt, Keith Richards and Christina Aguilera all turn a year older today. (Hat tip: MicCheckRadio) Quickly navigate Morning Reading List: NEWSPAPERS | TV | ONLINE MEDIA | RADIO | WEST WING REPORTAGE | REVOLVING DOOR | JOBS You think it is harder... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 11.19.07 - Posted November 19, 2007
Good morning Washington. National Journal reports, "Average time spent consuming news on a typical workday," broken down by type of Washingtonian. The Pew Talk Show Index for November 4-9 shows, "Dennis Kucinich's call to impeach Vice President Cheney made nary a blip with the general media last week but it was a... [FishBowlDC]

CNN's "Hype Machine?" - Posted July 23, 2007
CBS's Public Eye co-editor, Matthew Felling, says that "CNN has stretched the definition of news to a nearly incomprehensible level" in promoting tonight's CNN/YouTube debate. Annoyed, he started counting how many times the CNN networks, mentioned the event: "CNN and Headline News have now discussed tonight's 'groundbreaking' and 'first of... [TVNewser]

CNN's "Hype Machine?" - Posted July 23, 2007
CBS's Public Eye co-editor, Matthew Felling, says that "CNN has stretched the definition of news to a nearly incomprehensible level" in promoting tonight's CNN/YouTube debate. Annoyed, he started counting how many times the CNN networks, mentioned the event: "CNN and Headline News have now discussed tonight's 'groundbreaking' and 'first of... [TVNewser]

Immigrants Rally In Lou Dobbs Masks - Posted July 16, 2007
We told you they were gonna ... EARLIER: Immigrants To Rally In Lou Dobbs Masks... [FishBowlNY]

Immigrants To Rally In Lou Dobbs Masks - Posted July 13, 2007
In Milwaukee, no less: MEDIA ADVISORY WISCONSIN Group ASKS: DO YOU HAVE TO BE LOU DOBBS TO HAVE A VOICE IN THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE? Group Will Don Masks of the Popular CNN Host at Milwaukee Courthouse and Immigration Office WHAT: Members of the grassroots immigration group Voces de la Frontera will gather outside Wisconsin's Federal... [FishBowlNY]

Journo Ringtones - Posted June 19, 2007
This is, admittedly, a trend we'd like to see more of: Media ringtones. You can have Chris Matthews yell "Let's play Hardball!" every time your cell phone rings (but, come on, we'd much rather hear his "HA!" laugh. Who will make FishbowlDC's day and send us a .wav of that?!?). What... [FishBowlDC]

Robbed At The Mirror Awards - Posted June 14, 2007
Andersen, Auletta, Kurtz also shut out The first annual Mirror Awards were presented at a Meredith Vieira-hosted luncheon today at the W hotel in Midtown, and our mediabistro.com mothership — a finalist in the media information services category — lost to HealthNewsReview.org. In other words, we were robbed. Still, we weren't the only... [FishBowlNY]

Will CNN Ever Issue A Correction For Lou Dobbs? - Posted May 30, 2007
The New York Times has never been a friend of CNN's Lou Dobbs. (Smarmy mentions in Frank Rich op-eds? Check. Offhand digs by Joseph Lelyveld in the Magazine? Check.) So no surprise that the Times tried to push the Lou Dobbs leprosy controversy thread. (You'll recall Dobbs claimed there were 7,000... [FishBowlNY]

Dobbs' 60 Minutes Interview Reaches New, Awkward Extreme - Posted May 8, 2007
Some fallout over 60 Minutes' bizarre interview with Lou Dobbs on Sunday. Quick background in case you missed it: Leslie Stahl went after Dobbs on a factual error about the number of cases of leprosy in the past three years, which Dobbs' correspondent Christine Romans reported as 7,000. When Stahl told... [FishBowlNY]

Morning Reading List, 05.08.07 - Posted May 8, 2007
Good morning Washington. You don't like the The Note's new three-part format. The Royals dislike journos as much as American politicians (and the Washingtonian has more here). The Washington Capitals announced they will send four reporters to Moscow "to offer hockey fans unprecedented coverage of the International Ice Hockey Federation World Championship. The... [FishBowlDC]

Partying With The King - Posted April 19, 2007
King and his wife flank the Trumps The short hallway between the "Pool Room" and bar acted as a sort of cosmic, generational media portal last night at the Four Seasons, where a pair of cocktail parties — one celebrating Larry King's 50 years in broadcasting (a.k.a the "old people room"), the... [FishBowlNY]

Anderson Cooper | Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. | Lou Dobbs | Jane Pratt | Bono - Posted April 4, 2007
Times: Packs up to "futuristic, transparent tower." [NYO] Lou Dobbs: To contribute to CBS' Early Show. [B&C] Anderson Cooper: On cover of Out. [Radar] Jane Pratt: Still refuses to talk about magazine project for "35-to-50-year-olds." [Metro] Another College Rankings Fiasco: At U.S. News. [Inside Higher Ed] Tension Mounting: Between Forbes... [FishBowlNY]

Morning Reading List, 04.04.07 - Posted April 4, 2007
Good morning Washington. It's close, but most of you would not encourage your kids to go into journalism. See the First Quarter Program Rankings. An ABC release announced that "World News with Charles Gibson" "averaged 7.93 million Total Viewers and a 2.0/9 among Adults 25-54, placing first in the key demo rating for the... [FishBowlDC]

Ken Auletta, Interplanetary Reporter? - Posted January 16, 2007
Ok, so maybe he hasn't gotten his Neptune dateline yet, but New Yorker media writer Ken Auletta has covered pretty much every other corner of the media galaxy. His recent profile of Lou Dobbs, for example, pegged the outspoken anchor's yearly compensation at $6 million -- a figure that has been... [FishBowlNY]