What’s happening in the other Fishbowls and mediabistro sites around the country?

Let’s have a look.

Trust a student pilot? A traffic reporter in LA may think twice about flying with a student pilot next time around. Over the weekend, Clear Channel’s Talk KFI reporter Mike Nolan was injured in a plane crash and is in the hospital in “serious condition.” The crash culminated with the plane “bursting into flames” reports radio-info.com. Read the full story by Marcus Vanderberg on FishbowlLA here.

What passes for normal in New York: FishbowlNY tackles the issue of a woman in a sheer purple sheet. It’s actually an image from CRFashionbook.com, a new mag from Carine Roitfeld. Read more about the near naked woman from Chris O’Shea here.

Viewer appetites for Colorado shooting are insatiable: TVNewser’s Alex Weprin notes today that weekend special reports on the movie theater shootings captured the attention of millions of viewers. Nielsen reports that 14 million people tuned in to network specials. Read more.

We’re starting a new feature to let you in on what some of the other blogs in the mediabistro family are up to. What are fishy family members for, right? This will be sporadic and largely unplanned. Enjoy.

Smarty pants remarks…NYT commenters are smarter than the rest of the insane asylum let loose on the Internet, huh? FishbowlNY’s Chris O’Shea writes of a study that claims NYT commenters are a cut above the rest. Read here.

Cheating pol has memoir in works…FishbowlLA’s Matthew Fleischer reports that former Cali Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a new memoir on the horizon. The working title? Tiptoeing Around the House: Sleeping with the Maid and Other Untold Stories in the Schwarzenneger Abode. No, not really. It’s Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story. Read here.

Troy Davis. Who covered the execution longest? TVNewser’s Alex Weprin reports that Fox News had the least mentions of the Georgia execution last night. While MSNBC covered the news throughout the evening as did CNN, FNC’s Sean Hannity covered it at 9 p.m., Greta Van Susteren spoke of it a few times but no one stayed through the 11 p.m. hour like the other networks. Read here.