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NEWSPAPERS | TV | RADIO | ONLINE | NEWS NOTES | AWARDS & EVENTS

NEWSPAPERS

NYT's David Rohde is penning a five-part series on his captivity in Afghanistan and Pakistan and escape from Taliban kidnappers. Part one debuted in yesterday's paper.

TV

So balloon boy was all a hoax. Police reports cite CNN's Wolf Blitzer's interview with the Henne family on "Larry King Live" that night.

ABC's Kate Snow meets KISS.

Fox News has apparently fired liberal pundit Marc Lamont Hill.

And TLC is suing Jon Gosselin.

RADIO

In a radio interview with CBS News, President George H.W. Bush said the tone of the national discourse lacks civility. "I don't like it... The cables (TV) have a lot to do with it." The former President also called MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann "sick puppies." (h/t HuffPost)

ONLINE

Playbook: CNNImageSource.com, the network's news on-demand source for video licensing, lists "Barack Obama Eating" at the top of its list of "Popular Searches." Yields 108 results, from "OBAMA EATS WAFFLE" to "OBAMA HOT DOG STOP" to "OBAMA EATS MOUSE" (means "mousse").

Sarah Palin has joined LinkedIn.

Former-actor-turned-Politico Kal Penn has been laying low at the White House. He blogged recently about President Obama's celebration of Diwali and his restoration of the White House Initiative on Asian-Americans. (h/t Politico's Josh Gerstein)

NEWS NOTES

Motion Picture Association of America Chairman and CEO Dan Glickman has said he'll step down when his contract ends in September 2010. Politico reports Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Rep. Harold Ford Jr., Universal Music lobbyist Matt Gerson, Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), a longtime friend of Glickman's, and internal candidates Richard Bates of Disney, MPAA COO Bob Pisano and federal affairs chief Michael O'Leary are among the names of possible replacements.

NYT: With the war in Afghanistan heating up, the coverage grows. "It's like the Baghdad class of 2003 is now the Kabul class of 2009," Richard Engel of NBC said.

AP: Military leaders in Afghanistan have backed off an attempt to ban news organizations embedded with the Army from photographing or videotaping images of U.S. personnel killed in the war.

Iran has released a foreign Newsweek reporter on bail this weekend after four months.

AWARDS & EVENTS

Comedy Central's Jon Stewart paid a visit to GWU Saturday for two standup performances.

This Wednesday, come to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to see you fave DC journos embarrass themselves with bad singing. CBS' Bob Schieffer, Roll Call's Shira Toeplitz, Hotline's Quinn McCord, Mother Jones' David Corn, Politico's Chris Frates, Politics Daily's Lynn Sweet and Melinda Henneberger, TPM's Christina Bellantoni and TWT's Stephanie Green and Liz Glover are all taking part in "Karaoke in the Capitol."

HAT TIPS: mediabistro, TVNewser, Politico