Brown and out at CNN? Washington Whispers, er, whispers that NewsNight's Aaron Brown is on thin ice at the network for not coming in on a day off to cover SCJ-SDO's resignation (aka "Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor," now with a nickname as cool as "AG Gonzo"). "Some say he actually refused a request to come to work" says Whispers, though CNN denied that, as denied the entire item (Jon Klein pooh-poohed it on TVNewser). Meanwhile, the item dubs Dana Bash and Ed Henry the CNN heirs-apparent, saying their stars are on the rise (esp. after Henry cornered Novak on-air). Please note that nowhere in this item do we reference a wet Anderson Cooper. [Washington Whispers]

Hello, darkness, my old friend: Good news for lonely rejected "Talk of the Town" pieces everwhere: our other old friend, Silence of the City, is up and running and waiting to nurse those raw wounds of bitter defeat back to a happy place, with sunshine and bunnies. Hooray! [SOTC]

Speaking of sushine and bunnies, how 'bout those cuddly softies at Fox News? The Liberal media couldn't make this up: a whopping THREE Fox anchors are in hot water over callous on-air responses to the London bombings. Brit Hume: "I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought 'hmm, time to buy'." Brian Kilmeade, on putting terrorism back on the agenda: "I think that works to our advantage, in the Western world's advantage." John Gibson, joking before the blasts that if Paris had won "it would have been the one time we could look forward to where we didn't worry about terrorism. They'd blow up Paris, and who cares?" Said before the blasts but still, yikes. [The Guardian]